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essayelYou choose friends, you are either born into or marry into family.
This isn't always a bad thing. It certainly gives you a perspective on how other people look at the world and how they live. For instance Paul's brother, his wife and kids are coming to dinner this evening. The 3 boys are very accomplished sportsmen, play brass instruments and despise rock music and people who don't get up at 4 am to do 40 laps of an Olympic sized swimming pool [their parents drive them - they each belong to a different club in a different venue]. They don't smile - they are also terrified of dogs.
Sis in law is a very serious minder solicitor who plays squash and golf. Brother in law has a very deeply buried sense of the ridiculous he lets out when nobody from his immediate family is about to witness it and think he's letting the side down.
When they come I tend to listen a lot and, once they are talking amongst themselves, I play AC/DC in my head or think about slash because I am my own person and can do what I like. It's not that what they say isn't interesting - it is - but one way streets get very boring and after an hour or two I feel entitled to a detour.
The dog will be shut in his pen.
Paul's cooking so dinner will be good!
This isn't always a bad thing. It certainly gives you a perspective on how other people look at the world and how they live. For instance Paul's brother, his wife and kids are coming to dinner this evening. The 3 boys are very accomplished sportsmen, play brass instruments and despise rock music and people who don't get up at 4 am to do 40 laps of an Olympic sized swimming pool [their parents drive them - they each belong to a different club in a different venue]. They don't smile - they are also terrified of dogs.
Sis in law is a very serious minder solicitor who plays squash and golf. Brother in law has a very deeply buried sense of the ridiculous he lets out when nobody from his immediate family is about to witness it and think he's letting the side down.
When they come I tend to listen a lot and, once they are talking amongst themselves, I play AC/DC in my head or think about slash because I am my own person and can do what I like. It's not that what they say isn't interesting - it is - but one way streets get very boring and after an hour or two I feel entitled to a detour.
The dog will be shut in his pen.
Paul's cooking so dinner will be good!
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Date: 2008-08-25 07:55 am (UTC)That was a mental image I really didn't need.
Where David Eyke when we really need him?
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Date: 2008-08-28 02:27 pm (UTC)