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"Grandpa, did you ever have sex?" "Well,

  • "Grandpa, did you ever have sex?" "Well, Willie, if remember correctly the last time I wet my whistle it was at the drive-in.about 1955 with your Grandma during..." "Wiillard, shut
  • your piehole!" Grandma snapped. "Willie, you mustn't pay Grandpa any mind. He's senile." Grandpa's eyes twinkled mischievously. "...The Seven Year Itch," Grandpa finished.
  • He closed his eyes. His head rolled forward. His chest stopped moving. Then Grandpa slumped against the wall. Dead. I walked up and said, "Grandpa?" He jumped up and yelled, "
  • NOT! Ha Hah!" Grandpa never gave up a fad. He still said "Pshyche!" all the time, along with "Whaaaaazzzzzaaaaaaaappp" and "Bitchin!" I was done. We'd been on a 1,200 mile roadtrip
  • and grandpa's fads were driving me crazy. Finally he nodded off and just as I was about to smother him with his Spongebob Squarepants pillow, he roused and shouted, "Hashtag
  • PatrickisBae!" I shook my head. He was so obsessed with all of these past trends, that he often forgot what year it actually was. Gramps needed help, but
  • He was a stubborn old man. He was alive and kicking at age 98. Next year he turns 99. I secretly doubt I will live that long, especially in the wonderful world of "affordable care"
  • Publicly I also doubt but with too much of a hint at equivocation so that anybody who might be paying attention would doubt that I doubted for real. It was a staked out Idea. Peril
  • waited around the corner while Tomfoolery whistled the signal from the alley. Officers Smugness and Danger had guns at the ready while Peril kicked in the door. Revenge made a run
  • for it, almost crashing into Misery. Misery lurched away nearly falling into Rotten Luck. Destiny who happened to be strolling by shook her head sadly and asked is that Fate?

4 Comments

  1. SlimWhitman Jan 29 2018 @ 15:21

    Wow, cool finish, Gramps: always new he had it in him.

  2. SlimWhitman Jan 29 2018 @ 15:22

    knew knew knew. arghh.

  3. 49erFaithful Jan 29 2018 @ 15:54

    No prob Slim, we gnu what ewe meant.

  4. SlimWhitman Jan 30 2018 @ 02:21

    Thanks! and great to see ewe skulking around these parts, 49er.

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