Roberts wife Mary has conspired with her friend Mellisa to punish the their husbands Robert and Jeffery by sending them to a "special" Mother daughter banquet. It will be attended by mostly 40 to 50 year old mothers and college age daughters. About 75 laughing, tittering females . The two husbands are dreseed in short waitress uniforms. Exposing their backsides. The females are equipped with bathbrushes, hairbrushes and pingpong paddles and of course their camera phones. Hillarity ensues.
The laughter from the ballroom was a muffled, mocking tide against the pantry door. Robert shut it with a quiet, definitive click. The world narrowed to the flickering fluorescent tube, the hum of a distant cooler, and the scent of old flour and dust.
Mary stood with her back to a shelf of industrial-sized olive oil tins, her lavender dress a stark contrast to the drab metal. She’d been