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Hi TAPS....You sure can relate...And the accordion, no doubt!

Very funny....and well-meaning folks, too...Just different cultures and upbringings and way of life.

posted by MedusaNextDoor on May 26, 2006 at 7:23 AM | link to this | reply

Medusa

I've read where anger stems from believing the world should conform to one's way of viewing things.

posted by avant-garde on May 26, 2006 at 3:27 AM | link to this | reply

MedusaNextDoor, that was just how my Grandpa Jelinek reacted to things.   "No good!  No good!" or  "You good boy, by golly!"  all mixed in with Czech words and expressions.   If he didn't like something and had no control over a situation he would go to the basement and play his accordian.

posted by TAPS. on May 25, 2006 at 8:14 PM | link to this | reply

Well, Pat.B....I guess he were both appalled and attracted by Helen....

Very, very old-fashioned. My mom once told me, that at my mom's wedding, a male well-wisher went up to congratulate my grandparents' on the my mom's nuptials. The well-wisher kissed my grandmother on the cheek and my grandfather went nuts...lol....Now, you get where he's coming from.....I can't stop laughing....And yet, here I chuckle, but my immigrant grandparents worked so hard when they came to this country. He was a tailor and also bought a hotel to rent out rooms. And he skimped and saved and was able to buy a beachhouse...Pretty cool work ethic. Thanks for making me laugh.

posted by MedusaNextDoor on May 25, 2006 at 4:25 PM | link to this | reply

Hello, Sturgis...Helen is still a spitfire! Great way to describe her.

She was telling my aunt one day, that her husband looked at her without makeup one morning and laughed, saying, "Gee, can't you put a little makeup on. You're so pale." Without skipping a beat, she told him, "I married the wrong Clarkson brother." Ha ha....What a gas!

posted by MedusaNextDoor on May 25, 2006 at 4:16 PM | link to this | reply

And I read it and it's what I thought

a thread with a little hook designed to raise my curiosity.  I'll bet the reason Gpa was so upset about the lovely Helen staying so long -- he kinda liked her, and knew if she were his wife, he'd be worried that she'd meet someone like him. Maybe that's convoluted, but it seemed reasonable when I thunk it.  :)

posted by Pat_B on May 25, 2006 at 3:31 PM | link to this | reply

No! Say it isn't so!

Or did you say it earlier and I'm just having a senior moment...  I just read your comment on Blanche's new blog and darnit!  Everyone I love to read is ... abandoning me to my own resources...   I'll come back and read your actual angry grandfather blog in a minute.  I know it's going to make me think.

posted by Pat_B on May 25, 2006 at 3:27 PM | link to this | reply

Medusa

What a great story.  I can hear Helen and your Aunt talking.  Helen sounded like a real spitfire!  Thanks for sharing.

posted by Sturgis on May 25, 2006 at 12:41 PM | link to this | reply