My grandad (papa)
My paternal grandad, papa, is brilliant.
He was a boxer of some kind from when he was in his late teens up until his mid 20s (1948-1955 ish) when he met my nan.
He and her for some reason unknown to me decided to join the sally army and become missionaries over in India.
Anyway, the thing that stands out about my papa is the photo above my nans chair.
In the photo he's meeting the pope, the last one not the nazi, and he has never explained how it came about until recently.
He told me that the pope was visiting somewhere in India near to where they were stationed and had requested to meet the highest ranked members of the different religions that were in the area, my papa being a Colonel in the sally army was the highest ranked there at the time so got to meet him.
Anyway, I asked why the photo is in a basic frame above nans chair and it's because he didn't want the photo up, but nan is proud of it.
His reason for not wanting the photo up - "I didn't want to meet the man, I don't like him and have no time or space for him I was forced to because of my rank."
I love my papa, I dunno why he didn't like that pope and have never had that question answered.
(Mensa Reject has gone out, I'll be back on, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 0:16, Reply)