Suri got off the phone and slammed it down a bit too hard on the kitchen table. Miri looked up from her math homework. “Frustrating phone call?” she asked.
Yael spends Shabbos at her parents’ home and makes demeaning comments about her sister-in-law. Ephraim gets angry at her, and tells her she should be more like his sister. Suri takes a phone call at the clinic from a new speech client — who specifically wants Aviva as a therapist
Suri got off the phone and slammed it down a bit too hard on the kitchen table. Miri looked up from her math homework. “Frustrating phone call?” she asked.
Suri shrugged at her daughter. “That was Mr. Berger from the shul. There’s some kind of sewage problem in the basement. And we’re supposed to have our senior social group tonight and now our meeting room’s out of commission.” She sat down at the table. “I hate disappointing them.” “Why don’t you just do it in our house? I’ll help you get ready.”
Suri shook her head. “Thanks sweetie but this isn’t like hosting a Neshei shiur. Some of these women are in wheelchairs. The venue needs to be accessible.”
“Oh.” Miri went back to her math while Suri started chopping vegetables for a salad. She’d have to call everyone soon.
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