Chapter 2: The Skate Shop

It's after school and Brian has to go to work. Brian works in his Uncle Jake's skate shop. (Much to the disliking of Vinny.) He has to walk there because he had his skateboard taken away for a week because he got into trouble with a teacher the week before. Vinny always offers him a ride there but, Brian doesn't like being seen in the Z with his dad.

Brian walks into his uncle's skate shop. Jake's Skates is the name of Jake's store.

"Hey dude." Jake said to him as he walked in.

"Hey Uncle Jake." Brian said to him.

"What's going on?" Jake then asked him.

"Nothing much. How about you?" Brian then asked him.

"Same old same old." Jake told him.

"Did my dad has that Z when he first me you?" Brian asked him.

"Your dad got that car in the late 1990's." Jake replied.

"That's almost thirty years." Brian said to him.

"I know. He loves that car." Jake then said to him.

"I can tell. He washes it like every weekend." Brian said to him.

"Did he ever tell you about the first time he let drive that car?" Jake asked him.

"No." Brian replied.

"It was at your Uncle Charlie and Aunt Ann's wedding at Lake Winnetka. Your Uncle Mike ran away and snuck into the back seat of that car and your dad didn't even know until he was 4 hours away from Lake Winnetka." Jake explained.

"How come he didn't notice Uncle Mike in the back seat?" Brian asked him.

"Your dad had his stuff back there and your Uncle Mike hid underneath all of it. Back to the story. They stopped for something to eat and when they got out the Z wouldn't start and your dad called your Uncle Charlie to come pick him and Mike up. So, me, your Aunt Sarah, your Uncle Charlie, Elliot and Daniel Murtaugh went to pick them up. Your dad let me drive the Z back to the Lake Winnetka and we got lost but, we found the Boulders where your uncle Charlie and Aunt Ann got married." Jake then explained to him.

"That story was so boring." Brian told him.

"I didn't tell you how we found the wedding. I crashed your dads car through the fence to the Boulders backyard." Jake then told him.

"He never told me that story. My dad must of killed you." Brian said to him.

"He threw a small piece of fence at me. Luckily I ducked and it hit the alter." Jake told him.

"My dad didn't do that to you." Brian told him.

"Yes he did. You can even go ask him." Jake said to him.

"Whatever." Brian said to him.

"Your dad had a short temper back then." Jake told him.

"My dad doesn't have a short temper." Brian told him.

"He did before Danny and Kate were born. After that he calmed down alot." Jake told him.

"If my dad had a short temper I would get yelled at everyday." Brian then said to him.

"Listen dude I'm telling you. Your dad was crazy before your older brother and sister were born. He got into a pool hall fight because of me when I was sixteen." Jake told him.

"I can see my dad getting into a fight but, a pool hall fight. Now, I know you're pulling my leg." Brian said to him.

"I swear on this skate shop bro." Jake told him.

"What happened?" Brian asked him.

"This 21 year old guy wouldn't give me the money he owed me from playing pool." Jake told him.

"How much did he owe you?" Brain then asked him.

"Two hundred. He wouldn't give it to me. So, your dad went down there, got into a fight and went to jail." Jake told him.

"My dad was never in jail." Brian then said to him.

"Oh yes he was. So, was Kevin Riley his ex college teammate and your cousin Robert who was a Lieutenant in the NYPD." Jake told him.

"No way. I don't believe you." Brian told him.

"Yes way. Just ask your dad." Jake told him.

"I will when I get home tonight." Brian said to him.

"You do that and see what he tells you." Jake told him.

"How close were you and my dad when you were my age?" Brian asked him.

"I didn't know your dad until I was fifteen. And we weren't that close at first because me and your Aunt Sarah use to get him into trouble alot." Jake told him.

"What did you guys do to him?" Brian asked him.

"For starters we cost him fifteen thousand dollars when we went to DiMiranda's in New York City." Jake told him.

"How did you guys do that?" Brian then asked him.

"I broke the managers nose with a football and your Aunt Sarah bent a baseball. But, the manager only charged your dad for his broken nose." Jake told him.

"I believe that you and Aunt Sarah would do that." Brian said to him.

"You believe that but, not all the stuff your dad did?" Jake asked him.

"My dad isn't cool." Brian said to him.

"Trust me your dad is more then cool." Jake told him.

"Maybe more cool then Uncle Bud but, that's it." Brian said to him.

"Your dad was the coolest adult I knew and he still is." Jake told him.

"Maybe my dad was cool when he was younger." Brian said to him.

"Believe me when I tell you this your dad is still cooler then me." Jake told him.

"Yeah right." Brian told him.

"Again ask him." Jake then told him again.

"All right." Brian said to him.

Jake continues to tell Brian what Vinny did when he was younger and Brian doesn't believe any of it.