When the narrator arrives at his mother's house, he asks her if her father is okay. He tells her that he got drunk the night before, but that he brought him home because he had fun since they had not been drinking together for a long time. He also tells her about his mother-in-law's birthday, which he says was fun. He says that when he was an elementary school student, his mother got busy right away, and the two of them lived together only for a short time before she got divorced. She wanted to live for her work, so she separated from her husband. The narrator says that he wants to do the same thing every day of his life.