This morning my sister, brother in law and I were attending a funeral of an old friend. The funeral was about an hour and a half's drive away. The arrangement was for me to drop the girls off with my niece who would take them to school. We were to leave promptly at 8am, my brother in law is a stickler for punctuality, we have a saying in our family "While ever we have a hole in our a**** none of us in our family are on time". We have the best intentions it just never happens. Having been given the hard word from my sister last night I arrived promptly.
Twat nav set up we were on our way. I had done the exact same drive the day before for work so told my brother in law it would take us about an hour and twenty minutes if we didn't hit traffic. About 12 miles from our destination brother in law who has a tendency to be a little stubborn took not a blind bit of notice of me saying to turn left at a roundabout, he was going by the sat nav and that was that. Me chuntering in the back telling him he was going the wrong way. All through this journey my sister was trying to sort out their holiday. They had been informed that the hotel they had booked wasn't ready, so were given alternatives that weren't of the same standard. They are due to go on Sunday. My chuntering getting louder in the back we were effectively going to our destination via another bloody town! We arrived with about ten minutes before the start of the service. Most unusual part of the day, walking back to the car with a tall man who shall we say had an interesting look about him. He had attended the funeral, how the conversation got to the information he imparted, a total stranger, I really have no idea, he told me he was as a swinger...mmm I must look like the type of person you can share this sort of thing with, you know as you would at a funeral.
We needed to be back home for my sister to get to the local travel agents, her friend who works in a travel agents had called to tell her about a great deal to Cuba. The idea of my sister going to anywhere so far is a big deal for her, going to Kefolonia was giving her panic attacks, brother in law was on it in a breath this was somewhere he had always wanted to visit. He made me laugh when the lady in the travel agents asked if we wanted a coffee, she got up to do it and he sternly told her to sit, as there were only two places left for his dream trip he wasn't going to lose it now. A few hairy moments when she said it had gone, then a huge smile from the travel agent as it had come back on her screen. They fly in the morning. This sent my sister in to a tail spin, I think she may just have wanted to vomit a little, this was both very exciting and nerve wracking for her. They now had a million and one jobs to do, brother in law was cock a hoop, not that you would know from his face but I have known him long enough to discern that he was. He has been married to my sister for twenty one years, never in his wildest dreams did he ever think he would get her to go somewhere like that.
Finally around two we got to get some lunch, hashing over the day thus far we all agreed that there were other forces at work to get from the seed being planted about Cuba to getting it actually booked. Having just been to the funeral of a contemporary, who from first visit to the doctors until his death was seven weeks, I detected in my brother in law how it brought it home to live life to the full, do the things you have always wanted to do and my sister is happy to go along for the ride.
There may have been tears shed early in the day, watching my sister and brother in law this afternoon made me smile, a lot.
Sha X
Twat nav set up we were on our way. I had done the exact same drive the day before for work so told my brother in law it would take us about an hour and twenty minutes if we didn't hit traffic. About 12 miles from our destination brother in law who has a tendency to be a little stubborn took not a blind bit of notice of me saying to turn left at a roundabout, he was going by the sat nav and that was that. Me chuntering in the back telling him he was going the wrong way. All through this journey my sister was trying to sort out their holiday. They had been informed that the hotel they had booked wasn't ready, so were given alternatives that weren't of the same standard. They are due to go on Sunday. My chuntering getting louder in the back we were effectively going to our destination via another bloody town! We arrived with about ten minutes before the start of the service. Most unusual part of the day, walking back to the car with a tall man who shall we say had an interesting look about him. He had attended the funeral, how the conversation got to the information he imparted, a total stranger, I really have no idea, he told me he was as a swinger...mmm I must look like the type of person you can share this sort of thing with, you know as you would at a funeral.
We needed to be back home for my sister to get to the local travel agents, her friend who works in a travel agents had called to tell her about a great deal to Cuba. The idea of my sister going to anywhere so far is a big deal for her, going to Kefolonia was giving her panic attacks, brother in law was on it in a breath this was somewhere he had always wanted to visit. He made me laugh when the lady in the travel agents asked if we wanted a coffee, she got up to do it and he sternly told her to sit, as there were only two places left for his dream trip he wasn't going to lose it now. A few hairy moments when she said it had gone, then a huge smile from the travel agent as it had come back on her screen. They fly in the morning. This sent my sister in to a tail spin, I think she may just have wanted to vomit a little, this was both very exciting and nerve wracking for her. They now had a million and one jobs to do, brother in law was cock a hoop, not that you would know from his face but I have known him long enough to discern that he was. He has been married to my sister for twenty one years, never in his wildest dreams did he ever think he would get her to go somewhere like that.
Finally around two we got to get some lunch, hashing over the day thus far we all agreed that there were other forces at work to get from the seed being planted about Cuba to getting it actually booked. Having just been to the funeral of a contemporary, who from first visit to the doctors until his death was seven weeks, I detected in my brother in law how it brought it home to live life to the full, do the things you have always wanted to do and my sister is happy to go along for the ride.
There may have been tears shed early in the day, watching my sister and brother in law this afternoon made me smile, a lot.
Sha X
1 comment:
Hiya, your post touched me. I agree, live life to the full, go for all opportunities. Have no regrets.
Just catching up xx.
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