Chapter 5: Video Games

Vinny, Robert and Amy go over to Ray and Debra's for dinner.

"Do I have to eat Debra's cooking?" Vinny whined like a little kid.

"If I have to suffer through it so do you." Robert told him.

"Maybe she'll make lemon chicken." Amy said to them trying to act positive about going to Ray and Debra's.

"Let me out here. Maybe I'll be hit by a car." Vinny said to Robert sarcastically.

"What about Lorraine?" Robert then asked him.

"She can't cook either." Vinny told him.

"I meant if you get hit by a car who will take care of Lorraine?" Robert asked him.

"I guess I can try to eat what Debra cooks. Maybe she'll make that brociole." Vinny said to them.

"There you go Vinny. Think positive." Amy told him with a smile as she looked at him in the back seat.

Vinny gives her a fake smile and when Amy turns around he rolls his eyes. They get to Ray and Debra's house. Robert rings the door bell. Debra lets them in.

"We order pizza form Marco's." Debra told them.

"Thank God." Vinny said as he walked in.

"What was that Vinny?" Debra asked him.

"Thank God you're so beautiful." Vinny said to her.

"Ah, you're so sweet." Debra said as she gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Nice recovery." Robert said to him.

"I always do the same thing at home. But, Lorraine never buys it." Vinny explained.

"Hey Michael. Hey Geoffrey." Vinny said to them.

"Hey Vinny." They said to him at the same time as they were playing video games.

"What game you guys playing?" Vinny asked them.

"Football." Michael replied.

"I see that. Who's the better player?" Vinny then asked them as he sat on the couch.

"I am." Geoffrey replied.

"You want to play me after you two are done?" Vinny asked him.

"No thanks." Geoffrey replied.

"How's your old man in this game?" Vinny then asked them.

"He's terrible." Michael replied.

"Terrible like your Mom's cooking or worse?" Vinny then asked them.

"Vinny don't get them started on my cooking. They just started to eat my pancakes again." Debra told him.

"They tasted funny with all that burnt stuff on the frying pan." Michael said to her.

"My Dad is worse at this game, then my Mom is at cooking." Geoffrey then told Vinny.

"That's excellent. I want to make a friendly bet with you guys. If I bet your Dad in this game I'll give you guys autograph balls by the Jets and the Mets. If he bets me I'll take you guys to a Jet game and then a Met game. Deal?" Vinny asked them.

"Make it if you beat my Dad we go to the games but, if you don't beat him then we get the autographs." Michael said to him.

"You better watch this one Debra he's a business man in the making." Vinny told her.

Vinny shakes Michael and Geoffreys hands to make the deal final. After they eat dinner Vinny, Robert and Ray are sitting in the livingroom watching TV.

"I have an idea." Vinny told them.

"Your going back to Chicago?" Ray then asked him.

"Not yet. I was thinking that maybe you and me should play a game of football." Vinny said to Ray.

"Yeah right." Ray replied with a laugh.

"Not tackle football. I would kill you in tackle football. I was thinking about the video game." Vinny then told him.

"I suck at video games." Ray told him.

"And I suck at golf but, I still did it." Vinny told him.

"I don't think so Vinny." Ray told him.

"Ray if you're afraid to play me in video games just say so." Vinny then said to him.

"I'm not afraid to play you in video games." Ray replied.

"I knew it you're afraid. Afraid to lose to me." Vinny told him.

"I am not." Ray told him.

"Then let's play." Vinny told him handing him a controller.

Ray takes the controller. After about thirty minutes Vinny is beating Ray 42-0.

"You're cheating." Ray said to him.

"I'm using the Detriot Lions. They suck. How's that cheating?" Vinny asked him.

"I don't know how you're cheating but, you are like always." Ray said to him.

"You're the New England Patriots. They're a super team." Vinny told him.

"He's right. You should be beating him." Robert said to Ray.

"Shut up Robert." Ray told him.

"How about you shut up?" Robert then asked him.

Ray turns off the video game.

"I guess I win." Vinny said to him.

"And here's your prize, a trip out of my house." Ray told him as he opened the front door.

"Getting away from you is always a great prize." Vinny said to him as he left.

"I'll see you later Cubby." Robert told him messing up his hair.

"Bye Deb." Robert said as he was leaving.

"Bye Robert." Debra replied.

"Bye everybody." Amy said as she left and closed the door behind her.

Amy, Robert and Vinny go back to Robert's house.