Yesterday I blogged about two rather serious things – one happy and one sad. Today, I feel like a bit of humour so I will tell you about something that happened just before Christmas.
The phone rang and I told Ming to take a message and, after a strangely long conversation with someone who was obviously unknown to Ming, he made a few notes, said goodbye and then came to tell me who it was.
“Mum, that was an old friend of Dad’s and she wants to come down from Perth with another old friend of Dad’s. They’ve heard he is in the nursing lodge and they want to see him.”
“Oh, that’s fantastic”, I said. “What are their names?”
When Ming told me I got the giggles. “Those are two of his ex-girlfriends, Ming!”
Ming was suitably shocked and wondered why I was giggling.
“It’s okay, they were well before my time. I’ve heard other people talk about them over the years but these two women would be around Dad’s age.”
“So you don’t mind?” Ming asked. “Aren’t you jealous?”
“No! How can I be jealous of girlfriends Anthony had when I was in kindergarten?”
So we will soon be visited by the exes – how interesting!
jmgoyder 