“No I don’t know him. I’ve never seen him before anywhere.”
Mom and I sat close like we were lovers while we ate our meal, much like Alice and the guy she is with had done, and dad is doing with his date. Mom and I finished eating, and then mom said, “I need to go to the restroom before we go. Do you see which way I need to go to get there?”
“Go right over next to where dad and his date is sitting.” pointing to the restroom sign in dad’s direction. “I’ll meet you up by the door when you come out.” I said as I slid out letting mom out.
“Okay. I’ll just be a minute.”
“No problem.” mom then headed toward the restroom and I headed toward the door, while keeping an eye on dad in case he happened to see mom walking toward him.
I couldn’t believe dad never looked toward her or toward me, as mom walked right past him and his date. Three minutes after mom entered the restroom she came back out, just as dad and his date started moving to get up and leave. Mom stepped out of the restroom and started walking toward me, and as soon as dad realized he had stood up in front of someone, he turned his head and saw mom as she just stepped around him, as she walked on toward me without stopping. Dad then saw me with those big eyes he always gets when he is surprised to see something unexpected.
As mom reached me she turned to look back at dad and waved and I did the same, then mom blew a kiss toward him just as the woman followed his wide-eyed look toward us. The woman saw us wave at him and saw mom blow the kiss to dad then looked back at him and said something to him. It took a moment for dad to snap out of it while mom and I stood to see what would happen next. It took a little bit of a nudge from dad’s date, to make him snap out of it.
Dad began talking to the woman as he looked from us to the woman and back to us and back to her, before mom and I made our exit from the restaurant.
Out at the pickup I helped mom in on the passenger side again as dad and his date stepped out of the restaurant. I closed the door to the pickup and waited till dad and his date walked toward his car, and moved around to the front of my pickup, “Looser.” I said, as we met at the front left corner of my pickup.
“What’s that son?” dad asked, turning to look at me.
“Business trip my ass, you two timing jerk!” I answered back at him as I got my door open to get in.
“How dare you talk to me like that boy?”
“I talk to you how I want to since you’re a two timing lying sucker.” watching to see what dad may do next.
Dad started to turn toward me but mom opened her door, “Dan! You leave your son alone and you can stop by tomorrow and pick up your things and go back to your whore there.” dad just stopped and looked at her and then back at me.
I went ahead and got into the pickup and mom closed her door, as I closed mine and started the engine, and then backed out of the space. We could see dad’s face was red as all get out and his date talking to him like she was hot under the collar.
Once we were down the road a little way mom looked at me and asked, “Mark, what would you have done, had Dan stepped around the pickup toward you back there?”