Hot Wings Rebecca

Hot Wings Rebecca
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While her parents and the Plotniks ate Vietnamese pho and 5-spice chicken, Rebecca ate hot wings and biscuits from KFC. While the adults were eating homemade tacos with chicken, carnitas, fresh salsa, Indian rice and black beans, Rebecca melted some cheese in tortillas and made herself quesadillas. When Plotniks and Streetniks ate homemade granola, Rebecca went for shredded wheat.

Rebecca is 12 going on 13 going on 25 and does not take no steeenking orders. She does what she wants to. She's brilliant and beautiful and will carve herself a handsome niche doing any danged thing she pleases.

Parents always worry about their kids. It's our job. But Rebecca, and her equally fabulous sister Georgia, are destined to make everyone proud. It's easy to see from the eyes of the longtime friends, perhaps a little harder from the day-to-day trenches.

What The Great Plotnik knows is that the Streetniks and their kids hadn't been to Plotnik World Headquarters and Meatball Kitchen for so long that when the pencil was taken out to chart their growth progress on the back of the pantry door, they'd each grown a foot and a half.

When Plotnik went with Brother Streetnik to pick up the KFC hot wings, you could get one biscuit for 49 cents or 4 for $1.95. Plotnik said to the kid behind the counter, in the KFC hat that really didn't fit, and probably never had and never will fit anyone with a moderate-sized head, "Wow. That's quite a bargain. If you buy four you save a quarter of a penny per biscuit."

The kid said "Hyukk hyukk, yeah. Wadda gyp."