Update to a Trivial Tiff
As some of you know, I had a small altercation over the phone with a good friend of mine at the beginning of March.
Reconciliation came in the form of a 22 pound turkey!!! 🤣 And I couldn't help but think, as I roasted the turkey and then later split it into dark meat for him, and white meat for myself, that the word "turkey" is most appropriate, (and probably for both of us).🤣
I drove the cooked turkey with gravy and stuffing and a large bag of pears to his house yesterday, and I was astonished at my feelings as I left an hour later.
We sat outside, me in my car with the heater running, and him in a lawn chair bundled up to the nines and had a nice chat until it became too cold. As I left, I felt happy. It had been so good to see his face, and to see him laugh. I hadn't realized how worried I was about him, and I hadn't known that the feeling of general discontent I felt all of last month could be solved by a few minutes with my old friend.
Of course, during our chat, he contradicted several things he had told me earlier at the beginning of March about his health, and is probably unaware of it, and doesn't care that I was worried sick, thinking he was dying of C. Difficile, which I thought might kill him before the lung cancer.
And then he caused another small tiff, because he insisted on giving me a bag of food that I didn't want, insisted that it is not all covered with the C. Difficile bacteria because he is now cured, and tucked a card inside.
When I got home, I opened up the very nice Easter card, in which he wrote, "It's nice to know who your friends are," and in which he had tucked a $100.00 bill.
And then I initiated still another tiff by email.
He was very polite when he responded, "Shut up!", and I would appreciate some suggestions for sneaky ways of sneaking the $100.00 back to him the next time he visits. 🤣 I was thinking of rolling it up tight, covering it with saran wrap and tucking it inside the top of an orange...🤣
But it is probably the BEST way to fight with him...by email. He can't hang up on me...🤣...and his bad hearing isn't an issue! 🤣
Reconciliation came in the form of a 22 pound turkey!!! 🤣 And I couldn't help but think, as I roasted the turkey and then later split it into dark meat for him, and white meat for myself, that the word "turkey" is most appropriate, (and probably for both of us).🤣
I drove the cooked turkey with gravy and stuffing and a large bag of pears to his house yesterday, and I was astonished at my feelings as I left an hour later.
We sat outside, me in my car with the heater running, and him in a lawn chair bundled up to the nines and had a nice chat until it became too cold. As I left, I felt happy. It had been so good to see his face, and to see him laugh. I hadn't realized how worried I was about him, and I hadn't known that the feeling of general discontent I felt all of last month could be solved by a few minutes with my old friend.
Of course, during our chat, he contradicted several things he had told me earlier at the beginning of March about his health, and is probably unaware of it, and doesn't care that I was worried sick, thinking he was dying of C. Difficile, which I thought might kill him before the lung cancer.
And then he caused another small tiff, because he insisted on giving me a bag of food that I didn't want, insisted that it is not all covered with the C. Difficile bacteria because he is now cured, and tucked a card inside.
When I got home, I opened up the very nice Easter card, in which he wrote, "It's nice to know who your friends are," and in which he had tucked a $100.00 bill.
And then I initiated still another tiff by email.
He was very polite when he responded, "Shut up!", and I would appreciate some suggestions for sneaky ways of sneaking the $100.00 back to him the next time he visits. 🤣 I was thinking of rolling it up tight, covering it with saran wrap and tucking it inside the top of an orange...🤣
But it is probably the BEST way to fight with him...by email. He can't hang up on me...🤣...and his bad hearing isn't an issue! 🤣
