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“Did it come?”

Sal had thrashed through the woods from his place to mine, stood in front of me at the deck picnic table, hopping from foot to foot. Hopping might be a bad word to use. Sal is 299 pounds and 5-foot-eleven and a half inches tall. Big guys can’t hop.

“Inside.”

He continued bouncing. “So why are you sitting here?”

“Thinking about it.”

“Take it out of the box yet?”

I can tell when Sal is excited.

“Nope.”

“When?”

“Soon.”

“Come on, Nick. We gotta unpack it. We’ve been waiting for days.”

“Another couple of minutes won’t hurt. We have to make sure we don’t ruin the day by doing anything rash.”

“How can we do anything rash?”

“What if we don’t like the result because we didn’t do something correctly?”

“Nuts to that. Let’s go, Nicky.”

We didn’t have a chance. Cookie came out the slider, hands on her hips. “Is that box in the kitchen from who I think it is?”

“Hi, cutie. The name’s on the box.”

“You bought a donut machine?”

Sal sputtered, “Not just any donut machine. A Lil’ Orbits donut machine.”

“We’ll save a bundle,” I added.

“Define a bundle.” Cookie my lovely wife of many years is pretty patient about my excursions into odd places, but a donut machine might be pushing it.

“Last month, Sal and I spent $141.62 on donuts. I got the figures all penciled out to show you if you’d like.”

“No, I believe you.”

“So, these mini-donuts cost about a half-buck for six.”

“Nick, they’re tiny. I looked at the box.”

“Yes, but let’s say six little orbits equal a single regular sized donut. We eat twelve each per day. Well, maybe more. But that’s still only two bucks a day or 60 bucks a month. We’ve saved more than $80.”

“Money you guys will spend on pizzas.”

Sal grinned. “We could buy a pizza oven.”

Cookie spun on her heels, made the sign of the cross (something I’d never seen her do before) and returned to the kitchen.

I looked at Sal, “Cinnamon?”

“Powdered sugar.”

“We’ll do batches of both, how’s that?”

“Maybe a chocolate frosting.”

“Let’s not overdo it. We want to spread out the joy.”