saturday evening with mr. t ...

a little something for the turkey day holiday weekend...

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Sure ain't the same without all the old
ghosts around. Grandma and aunts and moms fidgeting in the kitchen. Dad's and
older cousins barking at the young ones to get out of the way f the TV so they
can see the Detroit Lions lose...........in black and white and probably no
instant replay, or barely anyway. People crammed around the table in Grandma's
kitchen licking their chops over drumsticks, dressing and sranberry sauce. Kids
going outside to play in the slop. or in the basement.
kids crammed in on
couches and mattresses at bed time. Waking up the next morning to the sound of
bacon and eggs the grandma insists on coolking ,to the objection of the moms,
for the kids. Cousins dog peeing on the carpet in the excitement of it all.
Adults exchanging stories of "you'll never guess what happened to me" genre.
Uncles going off to hnt deer with their brothers, and coming back empty handed
(translation : "Need to make a beer run."). one dad hides his in the garage
(mine!) so the kids won't see him drinking beer, even though they KNOW he's out
there and they laugh about it. especially when they hear something crach in the
garage and a muffled swear word...
The women asking the men "where the hell
have you been, you were supposed to be back hours ago for dinner. th kids and us
already had supper?" Not that the women are really interested exatly what the
men have been up to, because they already know it's a lie. But the tradition
dictates the men must come up with a lame excuse so that the women may play the
traditional role of Spanish Inquisition while the men attempt to recover from
their hangiver. they damn well the men have been in the garage for 2 hours after
they got beack, drinking up the beer and swapping old stories.
so the men
come up with "we got lost in the woods helping iuncle Ben spot deer and it got
dark, and we couldn't tell which diretcion we came from. you can ask Ben, we got
split up and spent more time looking for each other than looing for deer.
"Pleeease1 We're so cold......can't you make us some coffee?"
"Make it
yourself, Dufus!" come the reply.
Eventually they settle down and play cards
after the kids go to bed.

And that's the news from Old 27 on Thankgiving