We now know that it runs in the family.
Edited to fix typo.
What are you going to do when family is close to 90 years old and still drives and is easily swayed by the young folks in their late 70 ies??
Poor Mom, she thought she was giving the mechanic a compliment as the camel driver was very handsome.
Mom has traveled through the Middle East in her late 70ies and some of Europe and her views are most unusual. She saw real poverty in South America where people wore rags and lived in cardboard structure's. She witnessed a man walking in front of her minding his own business when a black auto stopped and police with machine guns leaped out and dragged the terrified man into the car. I believe this was in Argentina. [ What ever possessed her to go there at her age, even with a tour group is beyond me.]
Israel she loved, only place she had good thing to say about. She raved about the Palestine bus driver that took them every where, even to his own home for lunch-- and told his passengers he had a PHD in Antiquities and his wife a Masters in Math, --Why he was driving tourists about and his wife cooking lunch for them --At an extra fee-- she never gave a thought of.
She was impressed with the Vatican but had a difficult time keeping a straight face when the Swiss Gard with the pantaloons and pompoms on their shoes came into view.----Her view point, " I think those young men are Gay"--- She had expected to see the Popes Guards wearing hooded robes with guns hidden in the folds of their cloaks, not, Punch and Judy.
On to France she went, summer time and most residence on vacation so she felt she did not get the full French Experience. Except for the museums and the monuments.
Germany and a cruse for 3 days on the Rhine, a few stops at, in her words broken down Castles that were cold and drafty, like living in some kind of a cave, no big windows to let in the light or air, it is no wonder woman died young living in there and the Peasant's outside lived longer and healthier lives.
She complained that she could not see the Mona Lisa as the crowds in front of her blocked the view, ----What was that book about the Ugly American ???????
At one time Mom and Dad went to Haiti and she brought me home some kind of wood carving to hang on the wall, within a week everything one can think of went wrong .What at once had been a calm orderly home became Chaos. The kids began to fight and carry on, I became ill, my husband became injured. The car broke down and All 4 of the kids came up with ear infections.
I was not then or am I now superstitious but I began to wonder about that darn thing hanging on the wall.
At the Club on base there was this Navy wife that was spending a bit too much attention to my hubby, a bit too friendly, touching his arm or shoulder too often.
She began to want to become my next new friend and was at my house every day, talking about her sex problems with her husband.
What to do, I got a shoe box some nice packing material and put that darn carving in it, wrapped it up nicely with a big bow, ordered a nice flower arrangement to be sent to her home with the box, just a card that read " from an Unknown Admirer. I replaced the carving on the bedroom wall with pictures of my kids and sat back to watch. Hubby never noticed the change and to this day I wonder what happend to her. Was it a consistence that her husband was transferred to the East coast within weeks of my sending off the package.??
