My Family and Other Animals
So, I was working at a soul destroying call centre in Exeter, circa Christmas 2003, working the terrible 1600 - 0000 shift. No buses home at this time, so my bro was picking me up.
I finish for the day, down the stairs, out the door to be confronted by not only my brother, but my wife aswell....at midnight. Something's up, thinks I.
The first words from my sweet wife's mouth was 'we need to talk.'
Now, she can't stand my brother, so I knew they weren't running off together. What it was, was my father. Less than a week after New Year, while I was at work and my wife, mother and brother were on a day trip (keep in mind that my wife had just arrived from NY and had just met my parents for the first time) had systematically emptied the house of all valuables and many non-valuables, left a note declaring his 30 year marriage to my mother to be over and blamed the ENTIRE thing on me.
A week later he's on the phone, begging to come home, he's made a terrible mistake and didn't mean what he said. My mother took him back (I should've had a talk with her!) and he agrees to go to a therapist. Three months later, as I believe I've mentioned before, I caught him up to exactly the same scheme, then we 'had to talk' and he was ejected.
Last time I saw him he was sitting in his car, refusing to get out for fear I meant to do him harm (I did). Last time we spoke I told him I wished he was dead.
Parents eh?
(The Cosmic Fool Became aware that the bird is indeed the word on, Wed 25 Apr 2007, 14:49, Reply)