How to Make Your Mom Smile

Don't be surprised that her mother is white. If the girls from around the way take her to Elsie Bao for dinner, order everything in your busted up Spanish. A local girl won't need stories about the neighborhood, but the other ones might. Supply the story about the local who'd been storing canisters of tear gas in his basement for years. How one day the canisters cracked and the whole neighborhood got a dose of the military strength stuff.