Ready!!! Confuse Theeeeeeeeeeeee....(Pause)...CAT!

[LoisB]

Ok. So, mom tells me, "Your sis and neice want to see Stepdad, so let's meet for dinner at yadda yadda at 6:30."

Now, I had a job interview yesterday about an hour away...(big disappointment with a library) but, I planned on 6:30. I get a text and a frazzled phone call from my mom at 5:3-..."Where are YOU!? WE are at the house and hungry. Don't stop at home, just hurry up and get to the restaurant."

I'm firm. Mom, I had a job interview. It was important. I can't be there until 6:30. Sorry.

So, we get there. It's weird. Stepdad is paying for all of us to have dinner.

I tell everyone about the job opportunity and get the "less-than-encouraging" support from everyone. Stepdad is at the end of the table with D20 and gets creepy with her...bringing up uncomfortable stuff and she tells him to please stop.

The One Direction concert stuff comes up and I discuss how D20 may need to stay home because we need someone to watch the dog. My sis is disappointed because we are stopping at my dad's before the concert on Sat. So, I tell everyone how I don't have anyone to help with the dog. Mom says, "I'd offer, but I really don't want to drive out there this weekend." I accept it...it's ok.

Within the next 30 SECONDS...Stepdad says, "I'd like to get away this weekend."

Mom says, "Would you like me to stay at the house this weekend?"

Stepdad says, "Yes, I'm stuck at the house so much." (There's a big yard and he has told my mom that she did to him what Smokey did to me by leaving him to handle it all...pretend to forget the years of abuse and the multiple affairs).

Mom says, "Sure, I can help this weekend. I know your stuck at home."