Venezuela?? What kind of underhanded dark "work" is "Lyle" involved in anyways? Holy cow. Of all the places to ship off to for three months. Is he a spy? A kingpin for some drug cartel? You better do as he asks, Saul; every other relative has "disappeared."
When your maternal grandmother's cousin is your closest living relative, something is definitely up.
Please let this story be about Lyle, and not about Madi and the trouble she gets into eating Toby's dessert on Saul's old-lady couch.
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Today's Boldface Haiku is titled
"Pack Her Bathing Suit And A Spatula".
Favor.
Venezuela mind.
Me take in?
Summer, living...
Lyle, a lot!
He needs to rescue Fabiana, who is the REAL U.S. covert ops agent.
I know it's asking a lot, Saul, but don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Lyle’s other work choices were North Korea and the Philippines.
I wondered if the dog photo was of the late Bella or of Greta. Upon closer examination, it doesn’t look like a dachshund at all, but more like a dog wearing a clown wig. Perhaps Toby combined her talent for clown paintings with her talent for animal sculpting and she created a clown dog portrait for Saul to atone for her previous snarky attitude.
Hey Lyle... How about saying to your boss: "No, I can't go. My daughter is suffering greatly after the loss of her beloved grandmother, and I have no one to care for her other than an ancient curmudgeonly cousin-in-law who hasn't even seen the kid for more than ten years."
Or better yet...
How about June or KM's editor saying: "KM... This is a stupid idea; it doesn't make a bit of sense."
HelenClark
Trying to understand KM's reasoning is a challenge at the best of times but I don't know why she made Saul Madi's late grandmother's cousin. It would have been just as easy to make him her brother, which would make the plot marginally less ridiculous.
...and he will need $10,000 wired to him to get him back from Venezuela.
Hilarious analysis, Wanders!
Yeah, Lyle made an offer that Saul better not refuse.
-- Scottie McW.
Lyle should take Madi with him. Am sure they're putting him up in a decent hotel.
Three months in Venezuala would be a good experience for her.
They will have about a dozen weekends to visit South America.
or
Saul should stay at Lyle's place. Much less disruptive for her - clothes, games, wifi, friends. Madi won't like staying with Saul. There are numerous studies on "old persons smell". Here is one from scientific american.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/old-person-smell/
MAYBE we will get one of my kid's favorite lines from the movie Elf:
"You smell like beef and cheese:"
Madi will show up at the Charterstone meeting, spit out Toby's dessert, Saul will be humiliated, Toby will be mad at Madi and Saul, something will happen so Madi sees the light and loves Saul (a heart attack maybe, or worse, the dog gets sick). The end. My summary has just saved us the agony of dealing with this story, next!
As always, excellent comments! I can't top this, but I'll try.
Like everyone else, I wondered about Lyle's travel choices. Does he (or for that matter KM) read the newspapers about the civil unrest there? The lines for food and water? A little like here, but worse.) I hope Lyle packs some toilet paper and hand sanitizer unless he enjoys waiting on lines.
It just strikes me as odd that Lyle would pawn his kid off to a peripheral relative, which seems like he hasn't talked to in a long while. What happened to Mrs. Lyle? Doesn't Lyle have any brothers or sisters with kids Madi's age? He just pawns her off on some old crotchety guy?
I think Madi's name is going to fit her. She's gonna be "madi" when daddy dearest drops her off at Quincy Magoo's house. Maybe Mary can get "tummy brain" to visit, so the kid will have someone under the age of 90 to hang out with.
Madi looks like the kind of girl who’ll join up with the Manson Family as soon as she gets to Cali.
I think Lyle bumped off his MIL when she caught on to his plan to leave the country and stick her with the task of raising this little darling all by herself. Once Lyle dumps Madi off with Saul, he'll disappear somewhere in So Am, never to be seen or heard from again. Then Toby and Madi will concoct some onion, chocolate, and grape dessert for the meeting. They'll feed it to poor Greta and she'll end up taking her final dirt nap next to Bella.
HelenClark
Ah yes, what pre-teen (?) girl doesn't want to be shipped off to spend the summer with a crotchety old man who is more or less a stranger to her?
Poor kid.
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