Step-Ball-Change: A Novel by Jeanne Ray

Author:Jeanne Ray
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Humorous, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780307816344
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2012-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

AS FOR THE issue of that other wedding, I am ashamed to say that we had done absolutely nothing but worry ourselves sick over the whole thing. Every day Tom and I decided to call the Bennetts and explain our limitations to them, and every day we managed an admirable stall. A family’s limitations seemed an especially private matter, and I wasn’t any too eager to lay mine bare in front of people I didn’t know. Instead I found myself trying to navigate the tricky extra bonus stamps on the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes entry form.

“This isn’t the answer,” Tom said, picking up a series of color-coded coupons that had to be matched to a set of numbers that could only be found by reading ten pages of micro-print. It would have been easier to file a hospital claim with our health insurance.

“What is the answer?”

“We call them.”

“You know where the phone is,” I said, going back to my forms.

Tom looked at the phone. It sat quietly on the kitchen table, goading us. “Maybe we should meet with the accountant first. That way we would know what we could offer to pay, realistically.”

That seemed like a very reasonable plan to me. Tom was more than happy to call the accountant. An appointment was made and the stall was comfortably extended.

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