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Can I have one, too?

My family decide to eat at Hooters. It’s early enough before the big game that we get a table handily and apparently they have many chicken wings ready at their disposal since they’re getting ready for the many Superbowl orders. And before you think that I mean “me and my brothers” when I say “family,” let me tell you that it’s my wife, my sister-in-law, my niece and me.

My older brother doesn’t try to meet up with us when my sister-in-law calls him.

Get me some wings and take pictures, he tells her. But in place of taking pictures (she has forgotten her phone) she decides to buy him a calendar.

Why is Daddy getting a calendar? my niece asks.

He’s going to read it to your brother, I say. My nephew has been found smuggling Maxim magazines and tearing out pictures of hot girls. He’s only 3.

Can I have one, too? she asks.

Sorry, sweetie, your uncle is being a dork.