Maxine agreed to take Sasha for a walk with me this evening. What she thought would be a 15-minute walk turned into a two and a half-hour excursion.
I coaxed her into walking eight blocks to meet Chris at a friend’s patio, where a Moscow Mule was waiting for me and a fire was burning. Maxine had two Izzy drinks while we chatted and loved on their two Bernese mountain dogs.
Meanwhile, Edwin was texting from work, trying to get us to come by to break the monotony of a slow evening at the restaurant. He said he would also be allowed to leave with us.
After we said our goodbyes to the friends, I was able to bribe Maxine with key lime pie in exchange for prolonging our outing with the half-mile walk to Edwin’s work. As he took out the trash, the three of us had a little snack.
Maxine was a little miffed that her evening was sabotaged, but sometimes that’s the only way to get a teen to spend time with you.
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