Chapter 6: The Office
When Vinny and Matt get home. Vinny is not thrilled about walking inside since he knew that he would get an earfull from Lorraine. Matt goes in ahead of his dad. Vinny walks in a few minutes after Matt.
"Vinny can I see you in your office?" Lorraine asked him.
"All right." Vinny said to her.
'Man she's taking this pretty well. Maybe I won't get yelled at too badly.' Vinny thought to himself as he walked into his office. He closes the door behind him and sees the look on Lorraine's face. 'Oh god! Here it comes!' Vinny then thought to himself.
"You did it again." Lorraine said to him.
"It's not fault my fault that Nora's husband is an idiot." Vinny told her.
"Don't try to blame this on Bud." Lorraine told him.
"I would of been there on time if he knew how to work a fax machine let alone check if the damn thing is plugged in." Vinny said to her.
"Bud had nothing to do with you missing the skate competition!" Lorraine yelled at him.
"Baby, those figures had todone and sent backto him by tonight." Vinny told her.
"Don't you baby me." Lorraine snapped at him.
Brian and Danny are listening from the outside of the door.
"What happened?" Matt asked them.
"Mom just told dad not to call her baby." Danny told him.
"She must really mad at him then." Matt told them.
"You think? He missed my skateboarding competiton again." Brian told him.
Back in Vinny's office.
"Look Vinny you need to decide what's more important to you. Your family or your business." Lorraine told him.
"You know you guys are more important to me then anything else in this universe." Vinny told her.
"You really showed that today." Lorraine told him.
"This is getting ridiculous." Vinny said to her.
"I'll tell you what's ridiculous! You told your son that you would be there and you didn't show up!" Lorraine yelled at him.
"I know! I feel like crap! You happy now?" Vinny asked her.
"No, I'm disappointed." Lorraine told him as she walked out of his office.
As she walks out of Vinny's office Danny, Brian and Matt have to act like they weren't listening in.
"I know you guys were listening in. So, don't act all innocent." Lorraine told them as she walked out the front door.
Vinny is in his office sitting at his desk. Brian walks into his office.
"Hey Brian." Vinny said to him.
"Mom really let you have it didn't she?" Brian asked him.
"I know you, Danny and Matt were listening to us." Vinny said to him.
"How do you guys always know?" Brian asked him.
"You guys always did that. Danny did that since he was six and you've been doing it since you were five. And Matt started doing it two years ago." Vinny explained.
"Can I ask you something?" Brian said to him.
"You just did." Vinny replied.
"That never gets old with you." Brian said to him shaking his head.
"What did you want to ask me?" Vinny asked him.
"What is it that you don't like about skateboarding?" Brian then asked him.
"It doesn't look like it takes much skills. I think anybody can ride a skateboard." Vinny told him.
"It's harder then it looks. And it takes more skills to do then football." Brian told him.
"Back up. Don't ever compare a contact sport like football to skateboarding. There two completely different things." Vinny told him.
"You just don't get it. It's what I like to do. You know, like how Danny and Matt like to play sports and like how Marie and Kate like to do girly stuff." Brian explained.
"No, I don't get it. And I probably never will." Vinny told him.
"You need to be opened minded about these things dad." Brian told him.
"If your Uncle Jake couldn't convince me to like skateboarding after 18 years of badgering me to like it. You sure ain't going to do it." Vinny told him.
"I knew it. The only reason you hate skateboarding is because you don't like Uncle Jake." Brian said to him.
"I hated skateboarding way before I met Uncle Jake." Vinny explained.
"Admit it you hate Uncle Jake." Brian told him.
"I don't hate him. Sure me and him don't see eye to eye on alot of things especially the way my hair looks compared to his. And we have differnet parenting technics." Vinny said to him.
"Uncle Jake is cool. He lets David play football and doesn't have a problem with it." Brian told him.
"What's your point?" Vinny asked him.
"My point is Uncle Jake is cooler then you. He acts like he's a normal guy." Brian said to him.
"That's your opinion. And Uncle Jake isn't normal. No one on your mother's side is normal." Vinny told him.
"And your side of the family is?" Brian asked him.
"You got me there. But, no one on my side lives next door to us or across the street." Vinny told him.
"I like having it that way." Brian said to him.
"I hate it. Especially since Aunt Sarah lives next door to us. Your grandparents are all right and Uncle Jake can be okay at times. But, Aunt Sarah is a royal pain in my ass." Vinny told him.
"I think it's funny when she pulls you over because she has nothing better to do." Brian said to him.
"That's real hysterical." Vinny said to him sarcastically.
"Especially when she makes you do a field suprioty test for no reason. And if you do anything she can write you a ticket for not cooperating wth a Police Officier." Brian told him with a laugh.
"I see that you're not mad at me then." Vinny said to him.
"I'm still mad at you." Brian said to him.
"It doesn't seem like it." Vinny said to him.
"That because I'm use to you thinking what I do isn't important." Brian told him as he left Vinny's office.