"Thick Wallet"
"Can I get you anything else?" the otter waitress asked as she returned to her guests' table at Skipper's Diner in Bunnyburrow.
Stu Hopps turned to his wife, who shook her head, and then looked across the table to Judy and Nick, Judy's partner at the ZPD, whom he and his wife were meeting for the first time. He looked back to the waitress. "No thank you, Marlene. Check, please."
Marlene left the check on the table and then went to see if her next table needed anything.
Better off now that he was earning honest money, Nick reached for the check, but Stu beat him to it. "No, no, let me pay," Stu said. "You're a guest here in Bunnyburrow."
"Thank you," Nick said. "But I owe you next time you're in Zootopia."
After calculating the tip in his head—easily, as he was good at multiplying—Stu took out his wallet.
Nick's eyes widened. "Now that's a thick wallet. If I had known there was that much money in carrot farming, I might have chosen a different path at age twelve."
Stu laughed. "We've had a good crop this year, but not that good a crop. It's mostly family photos in here."
"Judy's brothers and sisters," Bonnie said.
Nick playfully nudged Judy. "You never told me you have brothers and sisters."
"We've never had enough time together for me to tell you about them," Judy replied.
"Not enough time? We're in the cruiser together for eight hours each—" Something small then bumped Nick's chest and fell into his lap. He looked down and picked up the rolled-up end of the photo album from Stu's wallet and followed a string of photos across the table.
"Switch places with Bonnie and I'll show you the whole family," Stu said. "We have 233 sons and 248 daughters." He put a paw around his wife and smiled. "And a few more kits on the way."
