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“What?” I question, taken aback by the request “Go? Where?”

“Winn-Dixie”

“Dad, I’,” I respond “I have five more calls and several different projects to loop in with the tearoceries tomorrow”

“That’s not gonna work, kid,” he retorts “I forgot I had to pick up my blood pressure medicine Ran out of it yesterday”

“What?” I hold both hands palm up in frustration “Why didn’t you tell me?”

He shrugs “I otten”

I leanwith all the ih before the day is over “Can you give me about an hour?” I ask, and he shakes his head

“Nope Gotta get there now Pharmacy closes pretty soon” He walks toward the front door and slips on his favorite leather loafers It’s then that I realize he’s actually e clothes and put on a nice pair of pants and a golf polo “And either you’re taking ”

“A what?”

“A Luber!” he shouts, hand already on the doorknob

I don’t waste ti him that he probably means Uber When Sal’sthat can be done is to go along with his plans

“Shit Okay,” I respond and start the process of saving docu an eone for a bit

“C’ out onto the porch “There’s no tiet home!”

Christ He’s in a rush

I glance at my watch to see that it’s only half past noon How early does this pharmacy expect these early birds to be? If this were New York, there’d be a riot if a pharht I almost toss a mouthful of sarcasm his way, but since it’s blood pressure et ready to head out the door and drive oddamn Winn-Dixie for my lunch break

I’ve barely pulled the Land Rover Discovery the rental agency was finally able to drop off yesterday to a stop in the parking lot of the Winn-Dixie before Sal is unbuckling his seat belt andmoves to pop open the door handle and hop out

“Whoa, whoa, Dad Take it easy” I reach over and hold on to his aroing to stop hiuess it is if he doesn’t want to rip his shoulder out of the socket “You’re going to hurt yourself Letin the space, and I’ll help you”