Cinderella sons

Today at lunch Patrick announced that he had managed to get a ticket to the school ball on Friday after all. I have to admit, I had not realized before that this was actually an issue, but I was pleased that he is pleased about it. The ticket he got, however, is for a couple, so it appears that he will need to persuade his on-stage adversary and real-life friend to go with him and be prepared to convince the person checking tickets at the door that two boys can be a couple. Even in Austria.

The next complication is the question of shoes. Both boys got nice suits from Opa last weekend, which they are very happy with, but the suits are not enhanced at all by tennis shoes, and only Christopher has a pair of nice black dress shoes. Even if these shoes actually fit on Patrick’s enormous feet, since Christopher will be performing at the ball, wearing his own suit, he needs to wear the shoes himself (assuming they still fit him).

So now both of my sons are going to a ball on Friday, but they only have one pair of ball shoes between them. This could be interesting.