Fitzburger wrote:Sadly my condition is real and the pain is off the fucking scale and I can't really appreciate the situation for it's X rated potential.
Well, you started the thread with a description of a potentially sexually provacative scenario. You can't sand-bag the guys who respond to your angle by putting them on a guilt trip because of their responses, which were in tune with your first post.
You'd be surprised to know that I think of your illness every time I look at this board, and that I hope you're rallying and doing better and are not in pain. I'm sure that I'm not the only one. You're a very prominent member here.
I admire your courage in actually articulating what you're going through. I don't know if I'd be able to do it. I'd still write unpopular anecdotes about my uncles.
Well, if I must...
OK. Not really about the uncle, but he holds the deed to the big gravesite, which is Old Calvary, the graveyard seen in The Godfather when they're all sitting in the folding chairs and Tessio whispers in Michael's ear.
Our family plot is right near where they filmed that. Right there, like 75 feet away.
Last funeral, we're all there, sad, quiet, the hard bright sun, stiff wind, very solemn, - except for my animated toupeed dimwit uncle, who is the second cousin of the guy being buried - he says audibly to my lesbian golfer aunt during the graveyard service, "We gotta to make sure we get the deed back from the funeral director."
Many of us winced a little. But, most of us being practical and familiar with the ways of wily funeral directors who cling to grave deeds to ensure that they do the next family funeral, were not too upset at my uncle's outburst. Or so I thought.
The priest says finally "Amen."
Not two seconds after that, another cousin bellows, like he's doing stand-up comedy in a club, "I have decided to be the godfather of Connie's baby."
No one laughs, as the person who died was young, and it was tragic circumstances, and everyone was crying, and the cousin did the same thing at the last five funerals. Yet, after, the whole family is more mad at the guy who wanted to get back the grave deed from the oily funeral director.
And, I finally figured out why. The guy who mentioned the funeral director owns my great great-grandfather's Civil War rifle and they all think they should have it instead of him. Too many people watching Antiques Roadshow, thinking the gun is worth zillions.
My country. It always comes down to guns.