"Say, Drew?" I hear my grandma call fairly loudly because I am fairly far away. I turn around, up the couple steps, through the kitchen, through the dining room, into their sitting space.
"Yeah?" I can see that my grandma doesn't have anything prepared to say now, she is looking at me poised to say something, but there is nothing coming out. To make her think that less time has passed during this pause in conversation, I make less movement and pretty much just freeze. I am a statue with this look of question on my face, just waiting for her to continue. During my time as a human statue, I'm able to sum up what had happened in this whole situation.
My grandma secretly wanted me to sit and watch TV with them, but since I clearly was not going to, she tried to keep me there in conversation. So, as I was leaving, she called for me in a state of panic. Now all she had to do was find a good conversation starter to keep me there longer...and she finally came up with one.
"You know, you can have ice cream anytime you want, it's up here in the freezer!"
Confused, I begin to smirk, but answered none-the-less.
I slowly replied with "okay" through a chortle that I couldn't hold back. But her plan was working! She continued.
"Just help yourself to it. We help ourselves to it all the time."
Still taken back by this random information, I begin to back away slowly.
The only reply that I could think of was "okay" but only through light laughter. I couldn't help it.
Finally, I made my way to the front door again and my grandparents got back to their television program, because Fox News was on.
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