[SOC] Grand Kids

Tue Apr 20 05:01:02 2004

RUN AWAY!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian C. Purdie" <[email protected]>
To: "SOC" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: [SOC] Grand Kids

> Setting aside all the trash in the world for the moment.
>
> <exaggeration alert on>
>
> In Australia, in my State of NSW, it's now school term holidays.
>
> I'm besieged by 4,000 billion grand kids and their mates. Daily I'm kissed
by
> little ankle biters I don't even know. They're here in their trillions!
>
> Tonight I provided my wife with two large legs of lamb out of the freezer
for
> dinner. We had Piranhas here... I got back bare bones.
>
> "Gromit" my dog was mightily disappointed. Even I hardly got a look-in
with
> gnawing the bone, a well known favourite hobby of mine. Carolyn peeled 27
> potatoes and said "do you think that's enough?"
>
> I didn't want to know, I just fortified myself with another wine.
>
> Sheez, I'm too old.
>
> Then they came down and wanted this cake/ice cream stuff in the
refrigerator, I
> couldn't refuse, I wuz outnumbered.
>
> They sent some back for me. A cunning ploy to curry favour, I know all
about
> this grand kids jazz.
>
> God, will I survive this insurgency?
>
> I see kids who call me Grand-Dad and ask them "who's your mother", they
mumble
> someone I don't even know or will never admit to.
>
> Sheez even the kid next door or down the street claims some genetic
> relationship. A very tenuous link I can assure one and all.
>
> I'm still surrounded.
>
> Later
>
> <exaggeration alert off>
>
> Ian
> VK2TIP
>
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