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Chapter 14: Father Knows Less
Vinny drives to the skate park and sees Brian sitting on the bench putting his gear on about to go skate. Vinny walks over to him.
"Hey Bri. You mind if I sit down?" Vinny asked him.
"It's a free country." Brian told him.
"What I said before was really stupid." Vinny said to him.
"I know it was." Brian said to him.
"I'm sorry for saying that." Vinny told him.
"It's no big deal. I sometimes wonder if me and David were switched at birth also but, I never say it outloud." Brian told him.
"Again I apologize for that." Vinny told him again.
"Again no big deal." Brian told him again.
"Then why did you run away?" Vinny asked him.
"I wanted to get out of the house for a while." Brian told him.
"You know you're grounded." Vinny reminded him.
"I just needed to get out of the house all right." Brian told him.
"I understand that. Our house can get pretty hectic at times. And with you being the middle child it gets hard at times. You know Danny and Kate are the oldest. Marie is the youngest girl in the house and Matt is the baby of the family. And you get left out at times." Vinny explained to him.
"Especially with you." Brian said to him.
"I know that after your Uncle Jake taught you how to skateboard we seemed to drift apart. You did your thing and I did mine." Vinny told him.
"It feels like you hate me becasue I skateboard." Brian told him.
"I don't hate you. We just go at each other every now and then." Vinny told him.
"I get this feeling like you don't care about me." Brian told him.
"If I didn't care about you why would I be at a skate park looking for you?" Vinny asked him.
"That's true." Brian said to him.
"I'll tell you what, if you come home right now I'll take a week off your punishment." Vinny said to him.
"Whose car did you bring?" Brian asked him.
"Mine." Vinny replied.
"Which one?" Brian then asked him.
"The best car ever. My Z." Vinny told him.
"If you cancel my punishment all together I'll get in that car and go home." Brian told him.
"Deal." Vinny said to him.
"Cool. We'll leave right after I do some skateboarding." Brian told Vinny as he got up from the bench to skateboard.
"That wasn't part of the deal Bri. Bri are you even listening to me? It's like I'm talking to a brick wall at times." Vinny said to Brian as he skated off.
After an hour and a half of Brian skateboarding they finally leave the skate park.
"So, what do you want for dinner?" Vinny asked him.
"Anything as long as you cook it." Brian told him.
"What if your mother cooks it?" Vinny asked him.
"Then I'm not eating anything tonight. Remember the last you let mom cook?" Brian asked him.
"The pasta sauce was so burnt it turned black. The spaghetti crunched. And the garlic bread was still cold in the middle." Vinny said to him with a laugh.
"Dad never let mom cook ever again. If you do make sure you leave her instructions." Brian told him with a laugh.
"What do you guys do when I'm on one of my business trips?" Vinny asked him.
"We have the the chinese take out place and the pizzeria on speed dial. And we have grandma across the street." Brian said to him.
"Imagine if we lived on Staten Island. Who would cook for you guys when I was away?" Vinny asked him.
"Your Aunt Marie could of come over." Brian replied.
"She died the year before your sister Marie was born. What now?" Vinny then asked him.
"Ray's wife could of came over." Brian said to him.
Vinny breaks out in hysterics after hearing that. "She's almost as bad as your mother." Vinny told him still laughing.
"Are you serious?" Brian then asked him.
"I said almost. Debra could actually cook a few things. Plus now she has all my Aunt Marie's recipes. Actually that would work now." Vinny said to him not laughing anymore.
"Can you ask your cousin Ray if him and Debra could move to Evanston?" Brian asked him.
"Me and my cousin Ray don't get along that well. If it was my cousin Robert that would be a different story." Vinny told him.
"You and Robert actually get along that's why it would be a different story." Brian said to him.
"Yeah. He was like the older brother I never had and I was like the younger brother he never had." Vinny told him.
"What about Uncle John and Uncle Rick?" Brian asked him.
"I know that they were my actual older brothers but, I didn't get along with them as well as I did with Robert." Vinny explained.
"I also thought Ray was Roberts brother?" Brian then asked him.
"He doesn't get along with Ray as well as he got along with me." Vinny then told him.
"Dad why did you hang Bill Murtaugh upside down from a tree?" Brian then asked him.
"I forget why." Vinny told him.
"No you didn't." Brian said to him.
"Yes I did." Vinny said to him.
"No you didn't." Brian said to him again.
"Yes I did." Vinny told him again.
"No you didn't times ten." Brian told him.
"Yes I did times infinity." Vinny said to him.
Vinny then sticks his tongue out at Brian.
"You're worse then Matt." Brian told him laughing.
"Where do you think he gets it from? Certainly not your mother who's a stick in the mud." Vinny told him.
"And you tell me to grow up." Brian said to him.
"I can do that." Vinny said to him.
"Why?" Brian then asked him.
"I'm your father that's why. So, there." Vinny then told him.
"I feel like I'm the smart one in the car for once." Brian said to Vinny sarcastically.
"You probably are. I couldn't even help Danny with his math homework the other night." Vinny told him.
"Algebra's easy." Brian told him.
"Well that means I know less then you. I'll send Danny to you next time he wants help with his math homework." Vinny told him.
"I don't think Danny wants his younger brother to help him with his homework." Brian told him.
"I really don't care. If you can help him bring that grade up in math, you're helping him." Vinny told him.
"School's over in two weeks." Brian told him.
"That's right. And you're graduating this year form junior high." Vinny said to him.
"Dad don't make me wear a dress shirt with a tie under my gown." Brian pleaded with him.
"But, your mother wants you to wear a shirt and tie under your gown." Vinny replied.
"Dad please talk to her." Brian pleaded with him again.
"I'll see what I can do." Vinny told him.
"You're the coolest dad ever." Brian said to him.
"Tell me something I don't know." Vinny then said to him.
They get back home and go inside the house. Vinny talks to Lorraine and Brian has to wear a dress shirt with a tie under his gown.