Tuesday, May 18, 2004
M' Da
You could write a book on the antics of my da. I guess like all of our family we are given to a small bit of embellishment to make the story a bit smoother, but in essence they are all "True Bills".
Had a phonecall today from my da, after about 6 days of trying to get through to him. He says he is cursed, neither phones, watches or traffic lights will ever go right for him, especially when it is an emergency. I tend to counter these criticisms with examples of when they did go right. While I may have convinced myself, I've yet to convince him.
My da doesn't like phoning for "a bit of craic" he normally needs to have a reason before he will initiate using a phone to contact me. I'd say we were pretty close, but we are not touchy-feely types, we feel much more comfortable in our own skins being at arms length and just talking for hours.
Anyway (you'll see a lot of that word, its something I'm comfortable with) NB. to self: look up new words to use instead of Anyway - around, at random, haphazard, haphazardly, however, nevertheless, random, randomly, regardless, whatever happens are possibles he got round to talking about buying a small table saw and how impressed he was about its ability to rip and its acurracy. He said he liked it, but it did make a powerful amount of dust and that it wouldn't do to be an asthmatic around it. I then asked the fateful words:
"where have you it set-up"
he said "ohh in the living room"
Yep that's my Da alright.
I then got the rundown on what he was up to: spraying about 3 acres of nettles and docken leaves in the reminants of a garden; the trials and tribulations of bodging up a solution to the sprayer breaking down and the 45 gallon drum falling down and breaking the bodge-up sprayer.
Like all of our family we have trouble getting off the phone once we are on it, I've been on the phone with my dad's cousin for up to 4 & 5 hours just cracking and talking and all the time meaning to actually hang-up the phone. It must be something to do with feeling guilty at stopping someone talking, when they have something else to say.
Had a phonecall today from my da, after about 6 days of trying to get through to him. He says he is cursed, neither phones, watches or traffic lights will ever go right for him, especially when it is an emergency. I tend to counter these criticisms with examples of when they did go right. While I may have convinced myself, I've yet to convince him.
My da doesn't like phoning for "a bit of craic" he normally needs to have a reason before he will initiate using a phone to contact me. I'd say we were pretty close, but we are not touchy-feely types, we feel much more comfortable in our own skins being at arms length and just talking for hours.
Anyway (you'll see a lot of that word, its something I'm comfortable with) NB. to self: look up new words to use instead of Anyway - around, at random, haphazard, haphazardly, however, nevertheless, random, randomly, regardless, whatever happens are possibles he got round to talking about buying a small table saw and how impressed he was about its ability to rip and its acurracy. He said he liked it, but it did make a powerful amount of dust and that it wouldn't do to be an asthmatic around it. I then asked the fateful words:
"where have you it set-up"
he said "ohh in the living room"
Yep that's my Da alright.
I then got the rundown on what he was up to: spraying about 3 acres of nettles and docken leaves in the reminants of a garden; the trials and tribulations of bodging up a solution to the sprayer breaking down and the 45 gallon drum falling down and breaking the bodge-up sprayer.
Like all of our family we have trouble getting off the phone once we are on it, I've been on the phone with my dad's cousin for up to 4 & 5 hours just cracking and talking and all the time meaning to actually hang-up the phone. It must be something to do with feeling guilty at stopping someone talking, when they have something else to say.
