"CALM DOWN!" she shouted back, gritting her teeth. "How CALMED DOWN would you be if some God-forsaken piece of shit socked your cousin there in the eye?!"

She gestured madly with her free hand at Anthony, then polished off the remaining 3/4 of her son's drink and narrowly missed putting it down on the actual table.

"So who got arrested?" she said, brow knit with suspicion and throat a little too raw to keep yelling.