At 3:00 a.m. the phone roused me from sleep.<\/p>\n
\u201cHello my Brothah!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSteve?\u00a0 It\u2019s \u2026 holy shit.\u00a0 It\u2019s three in the morning.\u00a0 What\u2019s wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n Becky was now awake, \u201cWho is it?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNothing\u2019s wrong.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting married.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOh.\u00a0 Congratulations.\u00a0 When?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNo.\u00a0 When are you getting married?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn a few minutes.\u00a0 We\u2019re in line right now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n She\u2019s there.\u00a0 Can I talk to her?<\/p>\n Yeah sure.\u00a0 Her name is Sally.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHello?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHi, Sally.\u00a0 This is Steve\u2019s brother.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNice to meet you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNice to meet you too.\u00a0 Where are you guys?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cVegas.\u00a0 It\u2019s a drive-thru wedding chapel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWow.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCool, huh?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYeah.\u00a0 Let me talk to Steve again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMike, isn\u2019t she great?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I\u2019m sure she is.\u00a0 Listen I have an idea.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t you guys get out of line, give us a day to fly out there, and we can all be there for your wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry about it, this is fine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cReally, Steve.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to be there for you.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI appreciate that bro.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I called you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo you\u2019ll wait?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNah.\u00a0 We\u2019re good.\u00a0 We\u2019ll come by and let you meet her the next time we swing through Chicago.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOkay.\u00a0 Well.\u00a0 Thanks for calling.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOkay, we\u2019re next.\u00a0 See you soon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I hung up the phone and sat there trying to shake the cobwebs out of my head.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going somewhere?\u201d Becky asked.<\/p>\n \u201cNo.\u00a0 We\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat did he want?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know, fries maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s in a drive-thru wedding chapel. \u201c<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re kidding.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo.\u00a0 I\u2019m not.\u201d\u00a0 I lay back down and pulled the covers over my head.<\/p>\n \u201cWait.\u00a0 Fries?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat else do you get in drive-thru\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n She smacked me with the pillow. \u201cYou\u2019re awful.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m tired.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 3:00 a.m. the phone roused me from sleep. \u201cHello my Brothah!\u201d \u201cSteve?\u00a0 It\u2019s \u2026 holy shit.\u00a0 It\u2019s three in the morning.\u00a0 What\u2019s wrong?\u201d Becky was now awake, \u201cWho is it?\u201d \u201cNothing\u2019s wrong.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting married.\u201d \u201cOh.\u00a0 Congratulations.\u00a0 When?\u201d \u201cNow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hello-my-brothah","category-young-adult"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenmarchi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}