"Actually, Aaron", she says, "You are spot on, as usual. We are grumpy this morning. Could it be vaccination nerves?"
"Mother nerves", mutters Melissa.
"Oh yes", says Carol, sounding cheerily nervous, "She will be coming next week, won't she?"
"I got a text from her this morning", says Melissa to Carl. "She still insists on bringing her two companions, and I have already told her they will all be staying in a hotel if she does it. The war has begun."
"Let's both get her on Skype after breakfast", says Carl. "United front."
"Your mother sounds like a very determined woman", says Francois.
"And then some", says Carl. "And then some."
"What are you going to say to her."
"That she comes alone or she stays in Switzerland."
"And if she comes anyway with her companions?"
"There will be no one meeting her at the airport, and she doesn't know the directions of how to get here, so she'd might as well enjoy a tourist's visit to Vancouver, because she won't be coming here."
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