Family Business
Originally posted on October 13, 2007
Asher: Can you guys get away for a couple days?
Eron: Um… possibly. Why?
Eli: Define “away.”
Asher: We have some business we need to take care of. And it involves all of us.
Eli: Stop being Mystery Dude and spill it, Bro.
Asher: (tosses a letter to Eli) From our attorney. Read.
Eli: What the hell………?
Eron: Damn….where did this come from?
Eli: Why are we just finding this out now? What was Grandma thinking?
Asher: (to Eron) It came certified - today. (to Eli) And I don’t know – she must have had her reasons.
Eron: You’re making plans, right? To go to up there and look into this?
Asher: Yeah, and I want you two with me. So -- can you get away? I leave tomorrow. Early, like four or five.
Eli: I can. Cassandra isn’t going to like it, but maybe I can make it up to her later. Maybe when I tell her why…
Asher: I’d prefer you didn’t, until we get back.
Eli: Damn, she’s going to like that even less. Two days, you say?
Asher: It might not take the whole two days. Trip up there is only about five hours in light traffic.
Eron: Don’t think you can count on light traffic, Asher. But you can count on me, even if I have to close the shop………Man, I can’t understand how Grandma could…..
Asher: I’m trying to believe she had good reasons for keeping this to herself all these years. Her letter doesn’t really say how long she knew.
Eli: No, it doesn’t, does it? And why are we just getting this now? She’s been gone more than three years.
Asher: Lawyer’s note said she requested it this way. Guess we’ll find out what we need to know tomorrow - in New York.
Asher: Damn, I never wanted to go back there.