Song of the Day
“I wish I could talk to you for awhile.”
Whenever I find myself sitting around missing my grandfather, I know that clearly something else is really bothering me. After all, it has been almost five years since he died, at the end he had three different kinds of cancer and spent the last 27 days of his life in a medically induced coma. It’s not like I didn’t see it coming. Plus, he was well past 90.
But in lieu of dealing with whatever present-day dramas there may be…
When I bought the Professor, I called my grandpa to tell him. He congratulated me and then told me to make sure I kept the tires properly inflated and checked the oil regularly. “Take care of the car, it will take care of you.”
“Okay, I will grandpa.”
“Good girl. Where’s your mother?”
“Right here. Hold on.”
He then proceeded to yell at my mom for a good ten minutes for letting me buy a car!
I was laughing my head off as my mother was stammering through “but she’s not a child. What do you want me to do?”
It was hysterical.
When she finally got off the phone with him, she just shook her head and said “why is he yelling at me? Why didn’t he yell at you?!”
And I was all “because my grandpa likes me better than he likes you.”
I bet he’d like that I have a beamer. Well, that’s what he’d tell me anyway.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:55 am
This post made me smile. Good man! My grandfather would have done the same. Probably the single most important person in my childhood. He’s been gone twenty-three years and I still miss him like crazy. Now I’m all mushy at work, thankyouverymuch.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Yay! We’re back to being the same person again. I am glad we put that red wine, cabbage nonsense behind us.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
We’re always the same person. Preferring different beverages is just the cosmos obeying our “more for us” rule.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
hahaha, you can definitely have ALL the cabbage!