Party Perils

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0000

“C’mon, Holly, I could really use your help this weekend,” insisted Dina to her friend Holly as they sat in a restaurant having lunch. “There’s no way I could handle my niece Emily’s party by myself.”

“What happened to her parents?” asked Holly skeptically. The last thing she wanted to spend her weekend was chaperoning a bunch of bratty children. “Aren’t they the ones throwing this party?”

“They can’t,” said Dina. “That’s why they asked me. Emily’s Dad’s a detective and got called in at the last minute to be part of some security detail that weekend, and Emily’s Mom’s a veterinarian who also got called to pull a double shift at the hospital the same day.”

Todd Wilson on Gromet's Plaza Archive

Party Perils