Baseball

A woman takes a lover home during the day, while her husband is at work. Unbeknownst to her, their 9-year-old son was hiding in the closet.

Her husband comes home unexpectedly, so she puts the lover in the closet with the little boy, who says, “Dark in here.” The man says yes it is. The little boy says he has a baseball. The man says that’s nice. The little boy asks would you like to buy it. The man says no thanks. The boy says that his Dad is outside. The man says OK, how much? The boy says $250.

In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and his mom’s lover are in the same closet. The boy says, dark in here. The man says yes. The boy says that he has a baseball glove. The man remembers the last time and asks how much? The boy demands $750.

A few days later, the father says to the boy, “Grab your glove,” “Let’s go outside and toss the baseball back and forth.” The boy says, “I can’t, I sold them.” The father asks, “How much did you sell it for?” The son says $1000. The father says, that’s terrible to over charge your friends like that. That is way more than those things cost. I am going to take you to church to confess.

They go to the church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth. The boy says, “Dark in here.” The priest says, “Don’t start that shit again.”