PRACTICE
Six o'clock on Sundays
What the practice is
The weekly call to your parents, fixed at six on a Sunday so it could not drift, and kept for seven years whether or not the conversation is any good.
How it serves you
It started as a practical fix when you moved down here, because your mother is not a texter and your father is not a phone person, and without a fixed time it would have shrunk to Christmas and birthdays inside a year. Twenty minutes, mostly weather and the Wilcoxes and whatever Hannah has sent them a photo of. You have stopped expecting it to be a good conversation, and what it has given you instead is that you know things about your parents your friends do not know about theirs.
Evidence
3 quotes
“It is rarely a good conversation. That is not the point and I have stopped expecting it to be.”
First mention
Read the entry →“So we picked six on Sundays and it has not moved in seven years, including the week I had flu and the week they were in Maine.”
First mention
Read the entry →“Six o'clock, same as every week since 2019.”
First mention
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