Ron looked at his ditzy mother-in-law seriously. Being a lawyer had given him the experience at talking his way out of tight corners, he was not about to let the unexpected appearance of his mother-in-law buffalo him into saying something rash. Deedee on the other hand, was a basket case. She looked up from her seat in the cart at her mother in pure terror. Deedee could only think one thing in her panic, she had been discovered! Immediately, she felt a warm sensation as her tiny body rid itself of excess baggage and began dumping urine into her diaper. Ron couldn’t use the excuse that he had given her the last time they were caught buying baby goods. Ron had told her they were buying the goods for his sister’s baby. His niece was too old to be eating baby food out of jars. The last time her mother had spotted them, Maggie’s baby was a year old and they had been visiting them. Surely even “Wacky Jackie”, as they secretly called her mother, would realize that Maggie’s baby would have gotten too old in the interim to be eating baby food. “We have a friend who’s staying with us,” Ron lied glibly as he glanced down at the diapered baby in front of him, “She’s her little girl.”
Jackie looked satisfied and said, “I think you should tell her mother that she needs a diaper change. She looks a little soggy to me. Where’s Deedee?”
“Oh, she’s around here somewhere. I think she’s over in the produce aisle with our friend picking up something that they forgot,” Ron prevaricated smoothly.
“There’s something I want to ask her while I’m thinking about it. If I Don’t ask her now, I’m sure I’ll forget. I’ve got to go. I Don’t want to miss her,” Deedee’s mother said hurriedly.
“I’m sure you won’t miss her. Of course, she might have gone over to another aisle by now. I know she’s in the store somewhere,” Ron told Jackie honestly.