Or something. He walked in the door and for the first time in recent memory noticed that his daughter is a human. “Why the long face, Sunshine?” he asked. I was so shocked, I actually confided in him. I said that Dawn’s been acting weird and I didn’t think she wanted to be my friend. His reaction? “Well, maybe it’s time you stopped treating her bedroom like your private hotel suite.” So sensitive. That’s what I get for opening up to him. I should have known better. What’s worse, he started chewing my ear off about Christopher — as in, Christopher reads the books that he’s supposed to shelve … Christopher talks too much to customers … Christopher needs to learn the work ethic … but he’s a “nice boy” and he knows a lot about kids’ books, so the parents love him. It took me a minute to realize he was talking about Ducky. So now Dad wants me to “talk to him.” I’m supposed to give him “work tips” and coach him on how to “use his time efficiently.”
