She sat down at the kitchen table and crossed her legs showing off her perfectly manicured red toe nails on her slim tanned feet. She said Mom is goin... to love this. I said it was an easy fix and we could get it done in an hour or two. I suggested she call her Mom and OK it with her and I would happily do it. Believe me I would do anything to have been close to Kristen just then. She called her Mom and put her on speaker phone. Karen said Please have Chris adjust it and treat him to a nice meal. After a minute she looked at my wife and said she thinks she had another poncho back at the car she wanted to get because the blanket was to hot. So she proceeded to get up and go "look".Within a couple minutes my wife got a message from my MIL asking if I could come bring her the keys the car was locked. So I got up and met her at the car. My MIL looked like she was ready to explode. She grabbed my hand and took my to the single stall restroom that was in the parking lot. She proceeded to lock. Now six years later we got some civic pride and wanted to get out of Denver's shadow so we went back to Julesburg.Dad had to go to Sedgwick for a couple of days for the funeral of a close friend of his. I wasn't figuring to see my girl for Christmas but 'cause dad was leaving we had our Christmas a day early. Everyone called my dad Dutch and up until last year I was known as Little Dutch. Then I shot up a few inches and put on some weight so I was bigger than my dad so we both come to be called. Oh, and I’ll refuse to testify against him, too. The evidence is gone, anyway,” Tricia surprised us with the strength of her will right then.“And if you think that either of us will testify against the other, well, that’s a pipe dream. We’ll get married even faster than we already planned. Yes, that’s right. Lola and I are getting hitched. She’s gonna be my wife! How do you like them apples, Mom? I know her and trust her a lot more than you and Dad knew each other, that’s for sure. You didn’t.