Christmas in a Ditch

From: MOM
Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Subject: Christmas
To: Unfortunate Lawyer

If you want to spend Christmas at the farm, you better get out of there asap on Wednesday. If you wait till afternoon, you and your sister will either be stuck there for Christmas, in a ditch between here and there, or in a motel somewhere. Wednesday afternoon it is supposed to be very windy - freezing rain, and snow starting - and we are going to get 10-20" from Wed until Fri night. Could another lawyer do your afternoon court thing for you? Can you move it to next week because of the weather? Let me know what is up....OK?? I bought some pillow fabric for your sister; if she doesn't like it, that's OK. We'll at least practice making pillows with it. Hope to hear back from you. LUV MOM

From: Unfortunate Lawyer
Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Subject: Christmas
To: MOM

We can leave right after court tomorrow. I should be done by 2:30 or so. No one else can cover it, and they won't continue it because my client has to go to jail tomorrow. They assume that asking for a continuance is just a ploy to keep him out of jail for Christmas. We'll leave as soon as possible.
Love, Unfortunate


From: MOM
Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Subject: Christmas
To: Unfortunate Lawyer

Tell the judge to make it short & sweet.....Dad will talk to you later, when you leave about which route to take to avoid the most snow and ice. Call when you leave.... IT WILL BE BAD, SO GET YOUR BUTTS OUT OF THERE ASAP!! Otherwise, I'll just have to give your gifts to the needy in town. Later--LUV MOM. PS: just talked to your sister and she is good with the pillow project.