The Secret Life Of Lauren

Remember Skippers? You probably don’t unless you were a child of the 80’s and of course had a father who was divorced. On a recent trip to Colorado I was driving with a friend past the location of the skippers I spent so many Wednesday and every other weekend at. I began to tell her how there used to be a nasty seafood chain located there.

She: you mean Skippers? My dad used to take us there all the time

Me: I’m guessing it was after he left your mom right?

She: Yeah did they give coupons to single men with children or something?

Me: It was like “Ok kids eat your nasty bottomless fried fish and shut the hell up about the fact I left your mother.” “Or don’t worry about the fact you will have to spend Christmas at two different places this year, there’s always more fried fish” Or “sorry I fucked your mom’s best friend, want some vinegar for your fries honey” Or maybe “My kids will forget all about how much this divorce will fuck them up, if I just let them fool around with the parrot in the sailors hat a little more”

Thank you Skippers for over a decade of serving divorced dad’s and their part time children.

# posted by laurenblogs @ 2:22 PM