Page 9 - Life's Outtakes 9

cow costume, and she waved

enthusiastically at him. He didn’t

complain about that since most

children waved at him, but he drew

the line at her calling hello out the

window, especially if she used his

name. He had thus far been able to

conceal his identity, and he wanted to

keep it that way.

But one day I took the whole

family to eat at a pizza establishment.

My four-year-old daughter ran into

some friends of hers there, and one of

them proudly pointed out that her

own sister was a waitress at the

restaurant. This soon escalated into a

my-family-is-better-than-your-family