And it turned out to be just as we'd thought—" Amanda," he cut her off. "I know you to be an intelligent person. If you need, please play the record...ng of that discussion again. But I ask you with all respect and courtesy not to pass off that sort of pacifistic pap to me." 'Pacifistic pap?' That's 'respect and courtesy?'" He could see she was genuinely offended.He took a deep breath. "I apologize for my terms. I have no excuse except that I am angry. You know well that, as the one responsible. I headed to work, parking behind the building to give customers a place to park. After saying ‘Good morning’ to Dad, I got on the phone; purchasing all the rigmarole we needed for our new receptionist.After that, I went over to Dad and sat down.“Yes, Stuart?”“I want to thank you for acceding, to my remarks about Sari coming to work part-time. Joy was not initially ‘on board’ with that concept. But, your quick reply to her was very helpful,” I said.“Any other secrets I need to know about, Son?”. However, now she had this callous, unemotional expression on her face like she could care less whether I woke up or I stayed in bed.“Not going to call me Fart Face anymore?” I joked and stuck my tongue out. I wanted to add a little levity and crack that stony expression on my mother’s face.“I am not in the mood to entertain you. You aren’t Sugar, you aren’t Fart Face, you aren’t in training. You’ve won, and you got everything you wanted. Your little joke may have amused you. I am not going to. . mom ... have been encouraging you to be a real gentleman, and you have taken those lessons to heart, which is why I have to apologise again, I should have realised straight away that you would never have even put your dick in my face, let alone take pictures.’’ ‘‘And ... if I told you that I am the pervert that you accused me to be.’’ ‘‘If you didn’t masturbate, I would really worry about you. I know you left here yesterday, you were gone, but when I took Bernadette’s phone call, you were.