Crazy Relativescurvylittlegoth writes, "My Grandma is crazy, crazy mad. As well as regularly putting curses on us all, she once fell asleep in the armchair on a sunny afternoon, Barley Wine in one hand, Peter Stuyveson in the other, only to wake up several hours later to a Darth Vader sounding fireman. She thought she was in HELL as the smoke and flames billowed round her..."
Are any of your relatives this loopy?
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chthonic, Thu 5 Jul 2007, 15:59)
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My mum's old uncle Jackwas the favourite uncle in the family as he was so good to my mum and her brothers. He made toys and played with them every time he came over to visit. In his later years, when I was a kid, he even taught me how to putt (part of this involved cutting a hole in the middle of my gran's lawn!) which I enjoyed even though I have no interest in golf.
However, looking back on all of this with my uncle once, we thought that with the benefit of an adult mind, Jack's life as seen by others didn't really add up. We reckon he was gay and only married because being seen to be homosexual wasn't an option in those days. And he and his wife had a lodger who stayed with them for many years until his death, a one-armed Pole who was displaced during the war. He went everywhere with them, and we reckon that he probably saw active service in auntie Nan's bed quite regularly.
Jack was a nice old chap, but odd - one Christmas he was staying with my grandparents when my mum and her brothers were kids, and fitted a bolt to the outside of the kids' bedroom so they wouldn't be able to get up and open their presents before he was up! And my gran and grandad let him do it!
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jul 2007, 11:17,
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