Shop, Summer, Mail
Sometime between the birth of brother Corey and the arrival of my sister Kayla, my parents decided to finish the basement. I moved from my upstairs bedroom to the coolness of the basement. They also had a phone put in at the end of the hall next to the laundry room. I don't know how old I was, but suspect it was after I had graduated high school when I heard the phone ring. Mom had already answered the upstairs phone by the time I got to it. Out of curiosity, I went upstairs to inquire about the phone call. Mom said that it was her visiting teaching partner and she'd be leaving pretty soon. She had just started watching the movie "The Shop Around the Corner" with Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart and asked me to continue watching it for her so that I could tell her what she had missed. We had a VCR, I think I...