Trade Me
“TINA My mother drives me back to the Bay Area. This time, though, we take a proper freeway instead of going through winding mountain roads.
We don’t say much. Her only commentary on the whole matter is this: “If Blake’s dad is so rich, can I make him pay for the gas money I spent to come up here?”
For months, I worried about precisely this: my mother discovering I have a source who could fund her hobby to an extreme she’s never discovered before. I thought I would be embarrassed. Ha. Adam got m...e thrown in jail. He owes me.
“Soak him,” I tell her. “Hell, don’t stop with gas money. You don’t know how rich people think. Make him fund a nonprofit center for you. You can quit your job.”
She wrinkles her nose. “What, and let that bossy pain-in-my-butt tell me what to do with my time? Ugh. Gas money, and he can pay for my hours today.”
She doesn’t ask me any other embarrassing questions. She doesn’t make horrible demands. She’s just there for me.
I look up Cyclone’s press release halfway through the drive.MoreLess
We don’t say much. Her only commentary on the whole matter is this: “If Blake’s dad is so rich, can I make him pay for the gas money I spent to come up here?”
For months, I worried about precisely this: my mother discovering I have a source who could fund her hobby to an extreme she’s never discovered before. I thought I would be embarrassed. Ha. Adam got m...e thrown in jail. He owes me.
“Soak him,” I tell her. “Hell, don’t stop with gas money. You don’t know how rich people think. Make him fund a nonprofit center for you. You can quit your job.”
She wrinkles her nose. “What, and let that bossy pain-in-my-butt tell me what to do with my time? Ugh. Gas money, and he can pay for my hours today.”
She doesn’t ask me any other embarrassing questions. She doesn’t make horrible demands. She’s just there for me.
I look up Cyclone’s press release halfway through the drive.MoreLess
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