He Said, She Said

A typical phone call with my sister lasts about forty minutes. We talk about what her husband has done most recently to annoy her (maybe the tent in the backyard), how her kids are feeling and what they are doing, what happened at work, what's on sale, who she saw at the grocery store, what our mother has done most recently to annoy us (we don't know where she lives since she got married), what our father said to the mechanic (really? he said that? let's hope they didn't loosen something under the hood that makes the brakes work), what our grandmother has done to annoy our mother and possibly us (like not answer the phone to get attention), how I am, how the dog is (he was recently skunked), her in-laws, what's on TV, what's for dinner, what we had for lunch, have we lost any weight, some recipe on the internet for apple cinammon muffins and much much more.

Tonight my brother called to tell me to Tivo a really funny episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." Then he hung up.