Then the questions began. “So where do you live, Hank?”

When she asked, I realized that I didn’t have any idea where he lived. Thank God she didn’t ask me!

Bones responded very happily, “Ridgewood Estates.”

So, if this were “The Friend Game,” then Bones would have immediately gotten the wrong-answer buzzer….ANNTT!!

And if Estelle were the game show host, she would have said, “Sorry! We don’t associate with people who live in apartments! Thanks for playing!”

Instead, she just spoke with disguised disapproval. “Oh, the apartments there? With your mother and father?” Now Estelle was digging into the family tree.

“No, just my Mom. I never met my father.” ANNTT!! Wrong again. But Estelle just said, “That’s nice.”

That’s nice?? I remember thinking that it wouldn’t be very nice at all to have never met your own dad. Even though by now Bones had absolutely no chance of winning The Friend Game, Estelle kept going. “So where does your mother work?”

“At the Horizon Restaurant.” ANNTT!! An establish- ment best known for its Belgian waffles.

Three strikes, he’s out!

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