Monday, December 25, 2006
Christmas Day with the family.
My sisters all wanted to go see 'Dreamgirls' but it wasn't showing in town.
Allie: Have you ever noticed they never show movies with black people in them around here?
Instead we just ate dinner and opened presents. Ty gots 'Cars' on DVD. I got 'The Wire: Season 2.'
Me: Look, Ty. I got the Wire! It's a gritty depiction of crime, corruption and bureaucracy on the streets of Baltimore!
Ty: You like that movie.
After that we played board games. Allie had bought 'Battle of the Sexes.' Men versus women. The men answer female oriented trivia questions and vice versa. None of us thought it would be too hard. The women in my family are all very athletic and the men... well... have spent a lot of time around women. But both teams did very badly.
Eventually the board games were set aside and we all just sat around and talked. Somehow conversation turned to times when we had each either crapped or almost crapped ourselves. In the car. In bed. In Home Depot. We all laughed and shared and it was probably the nicest moment of the holiday. A very merry Christmas.
