my friend came over to stay the night last night because she just broke up with her fiance a few days ago and didn't want to be alone. So we sat up until 3am, she had some wine & we smoked and sat around shooting the shit and playing nintendo etc. gave her a melatonin to help her sleep because she hadn't slept in two days (stuff works like a charm).
anyway, one of the stories i was telling her last night was about the time in 2006 when i went to one last 'family' thanksgiving with my relatives. blaine & i had been down stairs shooting pool in my grandparents basement & we heard drinks were being served now, so we went upstairs to check out our options. I wanted something hard but all they had was jack or pendleton whiskey, so i decided to try some jack. my uncle asks how i take that, neat or one the rocks and i tell him neat. my grandmother interjects 'you should really have some ice in that' 'nah, i prefer mine straight' grandma interjects again 'you REALLY should have it on the rocks' and for the first time in my life i very gently told my grandmother off 'grandma i know how i like my whiskey, and i like my whiskey neat' and went back to my pool game. but the look on her face was priceless, you'd think i'd just reached across the table & backhanded her. amazingly she bit her tongue and didn't make a fuss about it (not while i was there anyway). that year blaine & i had driven to the gathering in our rental car to drive home the point that my mother had made. she had told grandma to mind her manners and bite her tongue or i WOULD leave the party, i was an adult now and i DID NOT have to be there, i had graciously chosen to join them for dinner and if she couldn't be civil i COULD and WOULD leave....the most amusing an ironic thing about what my mother did here is: she didn't seem to realize, that applied to my relationship with HER & DON too! I'm an adult now and i DO NOT have to maintain contact with anyone i DO NOT wish to be in contact with...sucks to be you don't it bitch?
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