My Son Left Me Behind on Thanksgiving and Flew His Family to Hawaii—So Friday Morning, I Called Movers and Took Back Everything I Had Paid For
Curtains.
Several other purchases.
She entered figures into a calculator.
After checking the records against the statements, she said:
“You paid twenty-seven thousand six hundred forty dollars for the documented furniture and appliances in this period.”
I stared.
“Twenty-seven thousand six hundred forty?”
“Yes.”
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