"My dad is not a big drinker at all, but when he has to spend time with my mom's family he gets 'loaded,' as my cousin Tommy says."

Vem vaknar kl 9 en söndagsmorgon och dessutom inte kan somna om?!  Jag förstås.  Låg och kikade i
Perks of Being a Wallflower  (av Steven Chbosky) och kom till en rätt så kul del av boken. Tänkte att jag kunde citera lite. Det är läsvärt. 
 
"Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. 
 
First, I am very interested and faschinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same. 
 
They usually start when my mom's dad (my grandfather) finishes his third drink. It is around this time he starts to talk a lot. My grandfather usually just complaines about black people moving into the old neighborhood, and then my sister gets upset at him, and then my grandfather tells her that she doesn't know what she's talking about because she lives in the suburbs. And then he says how no one visits him in the retirement home. And finally he starts talking about all of the family's secrets, like how my cousin so-and-so "knocked up" the waitress from the Big Boy. I should probably mention that my grandfather can't hear very well, so he says all of these things really loud. 
 
My sister tries to fight him, but she never wins. My grandfather is definitely more stubborn than she is. My mom usually helps her aunt prepare the food, which my grandfather always says 'too dry' even if it's soup. And her aunt will then cry and lock herself in the bathroom.
 
There is only one bathroom in my great aunt's house, so this turns to trouble when all the beer starts to hit my cousins. They stand twisted in bladder positions and bang on the door for a few minutes and almost coax my great aunt out, but then my grandfather curses something at my great aunt, and the cycle starts over again. With the exception of the one holiday when my grandfather passed out just after dinner. My cousins always have to go to the bathroom outside in the bushes. If you look out the windows like I do, you can see them, and it looks like they're on one of their hunting trips. I feel terrible sorry for my girl cousins and my other great aunts because they don't really have the bushes option, especially when it's cold."
 
 





Kommentarer Från Er Läsare

Kommentera inlägget här:

Namn:
Kom ihåg mig?

E-postadress: (publiceras ej)

URL/Bloggadress:

Kommentar:

Trackback
Ladda ner en egen design gratis | Bonusar inom casino, poker och bingo