Dusty Hogg sat on the couch talking on his cell phone to his fiancé Claire Clutterbell. He looked around his life, his mother standing over the stove in the kitchen puffing away at a cigarette Oh boy cream of tobacco ash soup for dinner my favorite, he sarcastically thought as Mama Hogg cursed at her cigarette extinguishing itself and lit a new cigarette on the stove, she coughed a hacking cough and bellowed "Dusty Soups On Get Off The Phone!" Dusty excused himself from the call and sat at the kitchen table with his mother and his grandmother.
Other than Mama Hogg's chain smoking habit she wasn't that bad of a housemate, the problem was Mama Hogg's mother Grandma Nilma, talking about inappropriate dinner conversation topics, badmouthing his alleged deadbeat father, talking about how Claire was going to end up a quote unquote "Little Jezebel" like her great aunt, asking whatever happened to that nice girl Rosalie "I killed her and fed her to my dogs, she was just too annoying". Nilma rolled her eyes.
After dinner Dusty had absolutely had enough, he had enough of his mom's cream of chicken soup every night for dinner with her cigarette ashes peppering the soup. He had enough of Nilma's badmouthing everyone, and he would like to marry Claire but her parents had too many rules, first of all since he dropped out a month before he graduated he had to get his GED, and of course move out of his mother's house. He dialed the number for the smartest person he knew, Claire.
"Hello Claire can you help me get a high school diploma, I've eaten my last bowl of Cream Of Cigarette Soup"
