Conversation 30 - Excerpt

Forrest: How’d your paper come out? OK?

Lil: Pretty good, if I do say so myself. I’m pretty happy with it. I had to go to the library last night to pick up a couple of missing, you know, citations, but that didn’t take long. And I got it typed up and printed out this morning.

F: Hot off the presses, eh?

L: Yep. Just in time. How’s yours?

F: Yeah, I’m happy with mine, too. I tried to get it done at home- I wasn’t gallivanting around like you were- but my folks always had something they wanted me to do. Dad wanted me to come down to the shop and look at the new equipment he installed. Or, uh, Mom’d ask me to go into the garden and pick spinach or something for dinner or come with her to say “hello” to the neighbors or something.

L: Family can keep your hopping. Sounds about like my folks, too. I probably got more rest in Lauderdale than I would’ve at home.

F: (laughs) I don’t think so!

L: I got my paper written, didn’t I?

F: Yeah, OK. Point taken. And then, and then, my brother and his family showed up, and it turned into a grand reunion. So I didn’t get as much done as I thought I could.

L: Too bad.