Dear Mom,
Thanks for the lemon bars. It'll help me stay awake during my property class. Tell Rylie that I'll bring back her mohair coat, don't have a cow.
So you were asking me about how things are going with Spalding. I was so glad you and Dad liked him when you came up to school.
I agree he's cute and has a good sense of humor, and Dad said Spal was obviously "well raised" and there we might have a teeny debating point.
Last weekend, Spalding gave me a ring. Yes, it had a diamond chip in it, it was an engagement ring, and I should be thrilled.
I mean, we had that great week in the South of France, and raised hell for Spring Break, and I love the volunteer work he does with New Haven's inner city kids.
Spal taught me to ski, and how to appreciate a good Bordeaux, and he's a cute, fun guy.
But, we went home to visit his folks, and things got a little random there. Well, not random in your world.
Buttermilk Falls is a lovely town, and the Tylls live in a nice Colonial. Spalding seemed so nervous when we were going down.
I worried that his parents wouldn't like us, and that was why he was being a little nervous.
And Spal's mom was perfectly nice! At first. We had tea, which is a little old fashioned. The house is very Fifties, wall-to-wall, that kind of thing.
Mother Tyll, as she asked me to call her is a riot. She said that Spal's dad was tied up in the basement for being a "bad lad"
The tea was good, I guess (Earl Grey?) and we're sitting on these overstuffed chairs, and Spal looked like he was calming down a little.
Suddenly the kitchen door opens and this redhead, about thirty-three or whatever comes out, kind of flamboyant, magenta top, black pencil skirt. She's followed by this little bald guy.
(Mom-do you notice that women in this part of the country seem a little voluptuous? We're skinny, maybe too preppie?)
But the redhead was more than curvy!
She goes, "So Leila said you were so nice with the move on your day off, it made me want to give you some honey privilege."
The guy gasps. "Really?"
"My honeys have been lonely, and you've been such a good boy."
Then this woman rubs her tits in the guy's face. He doesn't even notice we're there, I guess I can't blame him.
He says, "Really, when we get home we can um-" Then he notices ME, and blushes.
"Talbert, I never said that." She looks at me. "Did I say that? Did I say we can do anything when we get home?"
Then she notices Spal and is kind of, "Hello, Spalding is this your little girlfriend?"
Spalding says, "Um, Paige, this is my cousin Sable."
But she's forgotten about us, and is looking at Spal's mom.
"Auntie Saffron, did I say in any way that Talbie is getting any special treats? I think I said I was just impressed with his generosity to help Marissa on his day off."
Spal's mom smiles and nods. She's like "Sable, you know we've told Talbert before about counting his chickens before they're hatched."
Sable turns to the poor guy, Talbert and says:
"That's right. And I know you lust after my nice candies. But why should I let you kiss them? You don't deserve my nice honeys."
Talbert begins tearing up and says,
"But Sable, dear it's been so long. We never-never"
He looks at me and Spalding again, and then I think he was checking out my boobs.
And then Sable says, kind of tender-sarcastic-
"Lets go home and you can winterize my wardrobe, and do my nails for my date tonight. "
"P-please spend time with me, sweetheart. You implied I might kiss your-"
"God, there's nothing more disgusting than a man slobbering all over my rack."
Sable says this and winks at me, and I can't help but laugh.
"You better watch out, Talbert, I'll make you take out your dork and let this girl-what's your name?"
"Paige."
"Paige. I'll take your belt off and give it to her and let her whip your dick a few times. You up for that, Pam?"
I tried to correct her "I'm Paige" but I was laughing too hard.
"I did that the other day. He was rude in front of a saleslady at Niemen Marcus, and I made him pull out his dick, so small you could barely see it, and I gave the woman a fifty dollar tip to whip his wee-wee."
Then I really started cracking up.
"And then when we were vacationing in Cannes, I tied Talbie here naked to a chair in the suite of the Hotel Intercontinental, and I let the maid come in and clean while he was there blindfolded.
She laughed.
"I-I wish you wouldn't tell that story, Sable." Talbert says, shamefacedly.
"Yeah, I bet. But still, you are so arrogant. I steal your trunks when we're at the pool, and I make you run naked around the block...
Yes, and I get my gay hairdresser friends to have you wank in front of them, and you're still an arrogant pig."
"I don't mean to offend you, Sable-"
Then the redhead slaps the balding guy, not too hard, but goes, "That's right. You've offended me."
Spal then goes "Where are my manners? This is Talbert, Sable's husband."
Then the redhead goes "Good luck, honey. Not many real men up there at Yale Law, huh?"
Spalding gets all red around the ears.
And then they walk out, the guy following Sable reasoning with her about her honeys."
Then she runs back in and asks the mother for a box of thumbtacks. "I think I'll put a bunch on Talbie's tongue, just to shut him up a little."
I had to interrupt. "Aren't you afraid he'll swallow some of them?"
She says, "Oh no, they stay firmly in a tongue, and my brother Strickland once swallowed some, and it didn't kill him. I think he teaches at your engineering school."
Spalding grinned awkwardly. "You know, the T.A. they call "Rooster?" He went to the E.R. with that thing up his-"
[That's another story, Mom.]
Anyhow, Aunt Sable smiled at me and said "Spalding's a lucky guy! But I found in my marriage to Mr. Mundelein-" She kind of pointed to the door-
"That you may need more substance in the sack." Then she said "Ciao" and split.
After this, Spalding's mom kind of got on his case about something he'd forgotten to do when he was visiting the last time...
"I know you've gotten very independent, you probably don't care about Mummie anymore."
Spalding began sweating bullets, and he said "No, no of course not, Mummie, I brought Paige here to meet you because you're the most important thing in my life."
"Does Paige know you don't do the chores you used to, especially the baseboard scrubbing that you neglected over spring break?"
"W-well we were in Florida-and-"
"I think you should do it now, darling. Unless of course you don't care about your loving Mother."
"It-it wouldn't be the best time. We really should-"
They got in this unbelievable argument about doing baseboards.
I got distracted checking my phone, and the next thing you know, Spalding is blushing and his Mom is dragging him into the other room by his EAR.
Mother Tyll turned to me and gave me this creepy smile.
"This won't take long. Spalding just has to put on his cleaning clothes and do a little work before he leaves with you, darling."
I was sort of aghast. Who does cleaning chores when they bring their girlfriend to meet their mother?
Then Spalding kind of realized that this really wasn't the time, and began arguing with his mother, saying we had to get out on Route 33 before rush hour, and she says, direct quote-
"It's entirely up to you, Spalding, but I think your attitude is quite impetuous. Perhaps I need to correct you a bit, and bring you back down to size."
"No, Mummie, I'm an adult now."
"All right. Go, then. I'll see you in a few weeks. Of course this may mean an adjustment in your privileges."
Spalding kind of looked at her. "Mummie, my privileges are determined by whether I make Dean's List." Then he simpers. "And I am on the Law Review, too!"
"I'm afraid not. I suggest if you want your full independence, I'll just give you back your keys. You don't need my help."
And then Spalding started begging her not to give him back his keys (to what? I don't know, or I didn't just then.)
Finally they went into the kitchen, and I heard Mother Tyll asking Spal to bring her the carpet beater, and he argues, and then I hear this whacking and howling, it was nasty...
And then there was silence, and just after that, Spalding comes out, and he's dressed in a turquoise camisole NIGHTGOWN.
A woman's body stocking, way too small for him, and ugly pink stockings and some ballet slippers that were like, made for a transvestite, they were so big.
He was really embarrassed, as anyone should be, I was gaping at him in this horror.