Morning by Wick Atwood

The morning that I will never forget, but still try too from the painful Staturday at 10 am, The day started off as a typical day and as a family we gathered around the TV waiting for college football to start and that is where we would lay all day long. This Saturday had one event that changed the rest of the day. Right around 10 our parents called us into the family room because they felt today was the day to talk about how they met each other and landed up with together. As we complained and slugged our way into the room to hear this story we don't really want to know. Then as we all poled on the couch to hear the famous meeting of my mother and father. Instead of extending it longer and long they decided to get it short and get to the point where they became one like the normal high school sweetheart story that has a few bumps and turns in it. IT all started at freshman orientation where after living in the same city all their loves they finally met as they took seats next to each other during the boring lecture about the school. They never said a word to each other nor make eye contact with each other and that was the end of that. They both excelled in athletics being captains on their sports teams. They dated people throughout high school then senior year rolled around and wanting to just have fun so they were both single. Also with their academics and athletics they also wanted to have a little money in their pockets. My dad worked in a machine shop and my mom at McDonalds. I'm thinking in my mind during this story those have nothing to do with each other. Back to the story, as every morning on the weekends my mother would work drive-thru and my grandfather would come thru and order coffee instead of being a normal customer and taking the coffee and leaving he would always be in a crabby mood yelling at her to hurry up. Finally one day she finds out who it is and that Monday at school she confronts my dad and talks about what my grandfather would do and as a normal male he laughed and shrugged it off as no big deal, and turned around and walked off. Later that day my mother now with some of her friends confronted him again about it and this time not letting he get away she stared making a big scene and hit him right across the face. After she was suspended for a few days she then returned to school and apologized to him when he gave her the cold shoulder and just ignored the apology. That Friday was prom and that was the biggest dance of the year and they both had dates who ended up leaving them to be with someone else. Now both alone they run into each other at the dance and instead of standing by the punch bowl they decided to dance together. The night continued to get better and better and they finally went to an after party together where they grew closer and closer. The next day they began hanging out daily they fell for each other and then became a couple. A couple years later they were married. As they finished the story my brothers and I looked at each other and thought to ourselves thanks for wasting those 10 minutes of our lives and we continued to do our normal Saturday routine, but in all different rooms.