What Sam says
Overheard in the Wolfe House #21
Sam: Mom, do you think you’re too old for Billy Bob’s?
Peggy: Yeah, probably.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #20
Sam: You alright Paige?
Paige: Yes. Why do you ask?
Sam: You look tan.
Paige: That’s because I’ve been out in the sun for the last three months.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #19
Sam: I think fall is here.
Peggy: Yes, I believe it is.
Sam: I turned the air conditioners off. You can sleep with the windows open now. Peace and quiet.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #17
(as Paige enters the room, after a long talk with Sam about whether it’s more drastic to un-friend or block someone on Facebook)
Peggy: Aren’t you going to miss all this big-brother advice next year?
Paige: I will. I will.
Sam: I don’t think so. The sound of her voice is too grown-up for me to think she’s going to miss Michael and me when she goes to college next year.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #16
Peggy: So, Sam, how are your new classes going?
Sam: Pretty well.
Peggy: Are they all required classes?
Sam: No, just the personal hardware class. I’m taking Linux and animation for fun.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #15
Peggy: So what do you think of this beautiful weather?
Sam: What do you mean? It’s the same.
Peggy: No, the 100s are gone. It’s beautiful out there.
Sam [stepping out on the porch and checking the thermometer]: My God, it’s a hurricane.
Billy Bob’s
Last year, Michael discovered that he could get into Billy Bob’s, Fort Worth’s famous honky tonk, on Thursday nights for free.
He and Sam went together this Thursday, sort of an end-of-summer celebration. Both start classes this week. They were lucky this time, Michael reports, because the cover band kept playing. At one point, they played a family favorite, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Texas Flood.
Sam reports that he had fun and would like to go again soon. “People always have fun at Billy Bob’s,” he said. It took a while to figure out what was going on, he said. He danced with one girl.
Michael danced with the same girl.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #14
Michael: Oh, why is college so complicated?
Sam (in a fatherly tone): I think you know the answer to that, Michael.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #13
Sam: Those lights on the modem and the router are really beautiful.
Peggy: Yes, they are.
Sam: Blue and green. Like Christmas lights.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #11
Sam: It’s an even year. Time to vote again.
Peggy: So who you voting for? No Hair or Good Hair?
Sam: No Hair.
(Subtitle this one: No hair, just a head.)