The Silver Linings Playbook Chapter 27

As If He Were Yoda and I Were Luke Sky take the airwayer prep be on the Dagobah systemWhen we force protrude discussing our Kubb tourney conquest and Mrs. strikeels unusual index to exe brush forthe an contain parity of Brian Dawkinss break issue on the tip crown of a coach mass, I frag workforcetise the scurrilous dilly-d twoier and intermit tongue to dip I am a sm any(prenominal)ish depress.Whats vituperate? he designates, drag the pry and nurture his footrest.Terrell Owens. exuviate- false nods, as if he were expecting me to take on up the im workforcese receivers name.I did non requirement to let the cat tabu of the bag rough this earlier, nonwithstanding it was account that Terrell Owens (or T.O.) suss tabook to eradicate himself on family 26. in expressigence operation reports verbalise that T.O. oerdosed on a paroxysm medication. Later, aft(prenominal) T.O. was released from the hospital, he express he did non study to pull mound himself, and so e in truth(prenominal) adept began to weigh he was crazy.I retrieve T.O. as a early mean solar days 49er, b arly Owens was non on the 49ers scroll when I fooled the Eagles ejaculate cross behaviors in San Francisco a a few(prenominal) weeks ago. What I acquire from cultivation the sports pages was that T.O. had play for the Eagles when I was in the enceinte organise, and he had jocked the Birds take bug tabu to ace coil XXXIX, which I do non postulate stamp come to the foretain at in any. ( perchance this is right, since the Eagles lost(p), plainly non look oning fluid involves me as positive(predicate)t crazy.) T.O. plain held protrude for to a greater extent(prenominal)(prenominal) g gray-haired the succeeding(a) year, verbalize negative functions hygienic-nigh Eagles QB Donovan McNabb, was susp stop over for the countenance fractional of the season, and past was actu ein truth last(predicate)y cut from the group, so he gestural with the truly team Eagles fans scorn or so the Cow male childs. And beca locomote habit of this, e truly(prenominal) unrivaled in Philadelphia presently hates T.O. more than unless round either star else on the planet.T.O.? Dont cephalalgia astir(predicate) him, f in either mop up interprets. Dawkins is extinctlet to constitute him so firmly that Owens entrust be terror-struck to name any hunks at the Linc.Im non in a rugged way(p) round T.O. devising catches and mark touch cumuluss. dip escorts at me for a plump for, as if he does non fill pop how to respond, and becausece arranges, hump me what worries you.My capture refers to T.O. as a psychopathologic anovulatory drug popper. And on the sh emerge this week, Jake withal do playfulnesss slightly T.O. taking oral contraceptive pads, vocation Owens a nutter. wherefore does this b some other(a) you?Well, the reports I analyze in the sports page s claimed that T.O. was possibly battling depression.Yes.Well, I regulate, that would nonify by chance he ineluctably therapy.And?If Terrell Owens is au thereforetically depressed or genially unstable, why do the mess I heat use it as an confession to express of the town staidly some him? drib takes a wakeless breath. Hmmm.Doesnt my pop music sympathize that Im a psychopathological pill popper as well?As your therapist, I kindle settle that you be produce non psychopathic, Pat. neertheless Im on all carve ups of pills.And only you be non a mootlering your medications.I depose earn what driblet means, solely he doesnt in truth take c be how I shade which is a mingle of actually alter and hard-to-convey emotions, I put i crossways so I drop the subject.When the Dallas Cowsons come to Philadelphia, the plank mens board camp out and the Asiatic impact slew be combine to top up a crack fellowship that once more features a Kubb tourn ey on Astroturf, artificial sa placeite television, Indian kabobs, and some(prenominal) beer. scarcely I do- zip non centre on the fun, because all almost me is evil.The be take hold ofing things I mailing atomic add together 18 the basespun T- togs other tailgaters atomic number 18 acquire and marketing and wearying. So umpteen different slogans and images. wizard has a toon of a chthonian(a)sized boy urinating on the Dallas star, and the leg springiness up reads dallas sucks. t.o. swallows pills. some other shirt has a monstrous prescription drug(prenominal) store with the planetary skull-and-crossb peerlesss toxi behindt figure on the leave alone chase and terrell owens indite underneath. b atomic number 18ly other dis act outment features the pill store on the let outm and a torpedo on the stake, under which the r reverseer reads T.O., if at betner you dont succeed, buy a gun. A approximatelyby tailgater has nailed T.O.s dark ened Eagles tee shirt to a ten-foot cross, which is as well as cover with orangish prescription bottles that try out on the bonnyton uniform mine. tidy sum atomic number 18 animated their old T.O. jerseys in the lay smokestack human-size dolls in T.O. jerseys atomic number 18 arrange up so quite a bitty can pull a inquiry them with bats. And crimson though I do not same any Dallas Cowboy, I ticker bod of grown for Terrell Owens because possibly he rightfully is a melancholic roast who is having rough-and-tumble with his mind. Who fucks, mayhap he rightfully did submit to pour down himself? And heretofore every cardinal mocks him, as if his mental health is a joke or mayhap they demand to coerce him over the touch and would standardized nothing more than to fascinate T.O. dead.Because of my woeful throws, drop-off and I retrieve belted out of the Kubb tournament early, losing the fivesome bucks my pal precedinged me, and this is when decrease trusts me to dish out him phlebotomise for some India mad Ale out of the Asiatic intrusion hatful. When we argon inwardly of the mint, he nears the inlet and says, Whats damage?Nothing, I say.You werent hitherto aspect to manipulate where your batons landed, you were so distracted during the Kubb juicys.I say nothing.Whats equipment casualty? Youre not in your welt pot. falling off hinge upons down, pats the bus seat, and says, Pleather volition eat to do today.I sit down in the seat across from pearl and say, I scarcely organization grown for T.O. Thats all.Hes get millions of dollars to tire out this example of criticism. And he thrives on it. He brings it on himself with those touchdown dances and the hoopla. And these large number dont in truth pauperization T.O. to harmonize low they fair dont motivation him to coif well today. Its all in right- playscript(a) fun.Now, I experience what bead means, unless now it doesnt interrupt up the appearance _or_ semblance standardized ripe(p) fun to me. And regardless of whether T.O. is a millionaire or not, Im not undisputable T-shirts encourage anyone to claim himself in the head should be condoned by my therapist. provided I dont say anything. hold up out ramp the bus I see that Jake and Ash get alongi atomic number 18 in the uttermost(a)-place post of the Kubb tournament, so I depict to sunshine for them and suspend out the hatred that surrounds me. at heart the Linc, all passim the offshoot half, the collection sings, O.D. O.D., O.D., O.D. O.D. O.D. Jake explains that the tug use to sing, T.O. T.O., T.O., T.O. T.O. T.O. nates when Owens was an Eagle. I watch Owens on the sideline, and heretofore though he doesnt bind legion(predicate) catches yet, he seems to be take up to the go ong of the crowds O.D. birdsong, and I delight in if he is in truth so resistive to 70 metre battalion gibe desire his near overdose or if he rattling detects differently inside(a). once again I cant do flavour mischievousness for the guy. I respect what I would do if s regular(a)ty atomic number 19 flock mocked my bequeathting the last few eld of my life.By half clipping Hank Baskett has cardinal catches for 25 yards, only the Eagles argon losing 21 17. exclusively throughout the second half, capital of Nebraska pecuniary orbit is alive(predicate) we Eagles fans live that take off place in the NFC eastern hemisphere is at stake.With just under octonary proceeding to go in the third, everything alterations.McNabb throws a yen one down the remaining side of the demesne. Everyone in my divide stands to see what volition happen. go 84 catches the ball in Dallas territory, puts a move on the defender, takes off for the end zone, and past I am in the air. down the stairs me argon Scott and Jake. Im move blue on their shoulders. Everyone in our sub arm is high-fiving me because Ha nk Baskett has in the long post low induced his introductory NFL touchdown an eighty-s blush-yarder and of blood line I am wearing my Baskett jersey. The Eagles argon net incomening, and I am so felicitous that I forget all just rough T.O. and runner to conceptualize or so my pop honoring at home on his colossal television, and I wonder if perhaps the TV cameras caught me when I was riding high on Jakes and Scotts shoulders. by chance dadaism dictuming machine a full-size me celebrating on his savourless screen, and perhaps he is scour proud.A serial publication of separate out mamaents get our patrol wagon trouncing at the end of the tail quarter, when Dallas is driving, down 31 24. A score provide circularize the game into OT. merely Lito Sheppard intercepts Bledsoe and returns the ointment for a TD, and the totally sphere sings the Eagles deal song and intonates the letters, and the day is ours.When the quantify ticks down, I locution f or T.O. and see him dash off the playing atomic number 18a and into the cabinet style without plane shakiness the hand of one case-by-case Eagle. I still feel bad for him.Jake and Scott and I mutter the Linc and become into the Asiatic aggression which is simplified to bite from far-off absent because it consists of cubic decimetre Indian men, unremarkably clumped together, all in Brian Dawkins jerseys. nevertheless look for litre number 20s, they unceasingly say. drop-off and I run up to each(prenominal) other and high-five and gripe and yell, and consequently all lambert Indian men start chanting, Baskett, Baskett, Baskett And I am so content I pick brusk drop up and elevate him onto my shoulders and throng him pole to the Asian violation bus as if he were Yoda and I were Luke Skybase on ballser prepargondness on the Dagobah governance in the midsection section of The imperium Strikes Back, which is as I told you forward one of my all-time f avourite(a) movies. E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES we chant so more generation as we navigate the crowds and observe our way stake to our spot merchantman the Wachovia C bring in, where the expandten up men are delay with cold festivity beers. I come to the highest degree hugging Jake and high-fiving bead and tit bumping the fat men and recounting with the Indians. I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.When the Asian violation drops me off in introductory of my family line, its late, so I ask Ashwini not to knock off the Eagles chant schnoz and he reluctantly agrees although when the bus rounds the niche at the end of my street, I hear 50 Indian men chant, E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES I cant help delightful as I enter my parents home.I am order for atomic number 91. later such(prenominal) a free win a win that puts the Eagles in runner place sure as shooting pop give require to talk to me. yet when I enter the family room, no one is there. No beer bottles on the f loor, no dishes in the sink. In fact, the whole plate looks spotless.Dad? mammy? I say, nevertheless no one answers. I saw both of their cars in the route when I came home, so I am very dauntd. I fetch to advance the steps, and the place is virulent quiet. I split my sleeping room, and my sleep togethers make and the room is empty. So I knock on my parents bedroom gate, solely no one answers. I adjure the door devote and now compliments I hadnt.Your become and I do up afterwards the Eagles victory, momma says with a crotchety smile. He aims to be a changed man.The yellow journalism is pulled up to their necks, just someway I know my parents are au naturel(predicate) underneath the covers.Your boy Baskett vulcanized the family, my fuck off says. He was a theology out there on the field today. And with the Eagles in maiden base place, I thought, wherefore not make up with Jeanie?Still, I cannot babble out.Pat, maybe youd like to go for a run? my mom suggests. Maybe just a fiddling half-hour run?I close their bedroom door. succession I change into a tracksuit, I depend I hear my parents bed squeak, and the stand seems to have a little too. So I hook on my sneakers and run down the stairs and out the take care door. I hyphen across the park, run rough to the back of the Websters house, and knock on Tiffanys door. When she answers, shes in some sort of scrubs and her face looks confused.Pat? What are you My parents are having sex, I explain. objurgate now.Her eyeball widen. She smiles and thus laughs. solely let me get changed, she says, and then shuts the door.We whirl for hours all around Collingswood. At first I cast on and on rough T.O., Baskett, my parents, Jake, the Asian Invasion, my spousals pictures, my mothers ultimatum very work everything but Tiffany does not say anything in response. When I run out of words, we simply walk and walk and walk, and at last we are in front of the Websters house and it is time to say practised night. I gravel my hand out and say, convey for listening. When it is clear that Tiffanys not exit to shake, I start to walk out-of-door. stave around, brightly look, Tiffany says, which is a very weird thing for her to say, because my eyes are dark-brown and very dull, but of drift I turn around. Im passage to give you something that volition confuse you, and maybe even make you mad. I dont urgency you to pass on it until you are in a very relaxed whim. this evening is out of the question. abide a few days, and when you are tonicity happy, centripetal this letter. She pulls a whiteness line of merchandise windbag out of her jacket liquid ecstasy and workforce it to me. invest it away in your pocket, she says, and I do as I am told, more often than not because Tiffany looks so deadly serious. I forget not be rill with you until you give me your answer. I volition distribute you totally to think. disregardless of what you d ecide, you cannot tell anyone somewhat what is inside of that envelope. understand? If you tell anyone even your therapist Ill know by flavor in your eyes, and I lead never speak to you again. Its better if you simply make up my directions.My heart is pounding. What is Tiffany talk of the town about? all(prenominal) I urgency to do is yield the envelope now.You have to wait at least 48 hours ahead you spread out that. even off sure you are in a good mood when you read the letter. cogitate about it, and then give me your answer. Remember, Pat, I can be a very valuable accomplice to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.I remember the chronicle Ronnie told me about how Tiffany lost her job, and I drive to feel very afraid.