Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 24, 2014
Transcript:
Val: Hi, Phil! Want to come over tonight? Phil: I'd love to...but it's Aunt June's birthday. I'm cooking her dinner. Phil: You and the girls should join us! Val: OH! Um, OK... Rena: A family dinner with Phil and his aunt? THAT sounds serious. Val: One small step for most people, one giant LEAP for me.
Giant leap is right. Usually she’d come up with 17 excuses not to by now. “Put one foot in front of the other, and soon you’ll be walking out the door.” (Santa Claus is Coming to Town movie, 1970)