My father is the definition of eccentric
After reading this, some of you will be forever sorry for me. Some of you will be scared. The few of you who know me will nod and think: “oh, that explains…” Ladies, gentlemen and people of unidentified gender; let me introduce you to My Father.

I’m not going to bore you with all the small eccentric details of his live. Just to start, he’s got his very personal timetable. He sleeps when he’s tired; he eats when he’s hungry. He’s always being like that and drives my mother nuts when we go visiting other people. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t because there is something he always does. Every day, it doesn’t matter if he’s tired or hungry. Every single day he has his coffee with milk and biscuits watching Dragon Ball (yes, the anime). And he’s 54 now.

Well, I hear you saying that’s not that bad. I’ll tell you something else, then. For more than a year, he got to the conclusion (who knows how) that people don’t need food to survive: just water, some vitamins and sun. So, for a long time he wouldn’t have any food (apart from the coffee and biscuits) and would spend hours having sunbathes completely naked in our terrace. He was 53 then. Not a pleasant view. He lost a lot of weight too.

Not enough? You want to know more? OK, then. Before that, he got to the conclusion that your body is regulated by the moon. Alright with women and the period, but he’s a man. Then, he would have “moonbathes” every night, naked too. He would cut his nails only when the moon was decreasing (they grow slower and stronger).

I don’t know if you’re tired by now. If you’re, go to the next post, but for those of you who still want to know more, here goes a small list of a few of his other eccentricities:

-Clothes just serve us. He wears them until they are rags (or until my mother puts them in the bin, but she knows she risks a big telling off)
-He never goes to the doctor. He cures himself, as everything in his body is controlled by the brain, and he’s got control of his brain.
-His identity card still says he lives in Barcelona, so he can’t use it for travelling even in Spain, despite the fact he’s been living 25 years in Tenerife. The reason behind is that he grow up in Barcelona and his mother’s home will always be his home, no the house he bought with my mother in Tenerife.

There are more, but this is getting too long. For those of you patient enough, just another two:

Once, when I was 14, as I walked in front of him at home, he said “Daughter, I’m going to die”.
I don’t know what he was expecting, honestly. I didn’t know what to do, and just kept walking. He’s still alive after 14 years.

And the last one. When his mum got Alzheimer, my uncle was the one who arranged everything. They were a bit upset before that (loooong story) but after that, they just didn’t talk to each other at all. When I asked my father why he hadn’t help my uncle with my grandma, he replied “Your uncle is very sick. He doesn’t know it, but he’s got the evil inside him. Helping his mother is helping him and, when in the future everybody goes against him because of the evil he’s got, he’ll say: well, at least it was me who looked after our mother”. So sweet…
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 31 Oct 2008, 10:43, 6 replies)

Moon baths?
Just be glad he didn't go out a buy a moon cup.
( girlinthehole, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 10:56, closed)

I didn't know
if the expresion existed or not, but as you say sunbaths I thought it had to bee moonbaths too.

I don't know what a moon cup is, sorry.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 31 Oct 2008, 11:00, closed)

Think you mean
SunbathEs :)

www.thefreedictionary.com/sunbathes
(Mellowchimp, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 18:47, closed)

OK
I´ll change it for the moon too.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 31 Oct 2008, 21:12, closed)

Your English
is better than that of a lot of English people!

Also, your dad sounds brilliant :)
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 15:42, closed)

Moon cup
www.mooncup.co.uk/
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Mon 3 Nov 2008, 8:09, closed)