Chapter One––––––––
“Congratulate me, Red! And join me in a toast. To driving!” Myrtle took a swig from her wine glass.
Her son, Red, rolled his eyes at his wife as she kicked open the back door with their toddler on one hip and a bag of groceries on the other. He resisted the urge to hang up the phone on his mother. “What for, Mama? Finally beat Mrs. Meyers playing Scrabble?”
“You know I always let that poor woman win. No, I just came back from the Department of Motor Vehicles. They renewed my driver’s license for ten more years!”
Red, taking the grocery bag from Elaine, dropped the phone. Picking it up, he said, “But Mama, you haven’t even regularly driven a car for at least five years!”
“That didn’t seem to bother the DMV one bit. Besides, I do get some driving practice in from tim
