Breaking the News to Friends

November 5, 2010 - Our good friend, Jennifer, returned our call around dinnertime.  Jeff invited her to dinner, an invitation she was delighted to accept since Dan was away on business and she was headed out on errands.  She came into the house gushing how happy she was to be having dinner with us.  I apologized to her, telling her that we kind of got her here on false pretenses.  As I kept busy preparing dinner, Jeff told his tale starting from the trip to the doctor's office for poison ivy.  We managed to eat dinner, not my best effort but it was "edible and nutritious" and we talked for three hours.  When she left she lamented that we left her with the job of sharing the news with Dan.  I suggested Jeff call Dan himself since Jeff is so good at sharing the news.  She said she would do it.  That was going to be a difficult phone call, we knew.