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Friday - Things are Dirtier in the South
Mar. 30th, 2007 04:23 pmWhen I start to feel sorry for myself for being unemployed, I have plenty of people around me whose worlds seem to be coming apart at the seams to make me snap out of it.
Which reminds me,I spoke with my cousin Leslie in Tennessee last week. Her son is still hanging in there by a thread, the same as always, and so is she. An hour-long phone call with Leslie is like spending an hour at the gym working out non-stop. It's always intense. It's also always entertaining.
I love the way Leslie goes from pious Christian observation to blasphemous swearing in the same breath, and sometimes in the same sentence. I don't think Leslie's Baptist mother appreciates it as much as I do, but that's why Leslie calls me and not her mom.
There are a lot of people that Leslie calls instead of her mother. She only talks to her mom, who lives here in Texas, once every few months, but she says she talks to my mother every night. The fact that my mother has been dead for 23 years doesn't change the fact that she gets more out of talking to her than to her own mom. The two of them just don't get along all that well.
( Some things you don't threaten, you just do. )
Which reminds me,I spoke with my cousin Leslie in Tennessee last week. Her son is still hanging in there by a thread, the same as always, and so is she. An hour-long phone call with Leslie is like spending an hour at the gym working out non-stop. It's always intense. It's also always entertaining.
I love the way Leslie goes from pious Christian observation to blasphemous swearing in the same breath, and sometimes in the same sentence. I don't think Leslie's Baptist mother appreciates it as much as I do, but that's why Leslie calls me and not her mom.
There are a lot of people that Leslie calls instead of her mother. She only talks to her mom, who lives here in Texas, once every few months, but she says she talks to my mother every night. The fact that my mother has been dead for 23 years doesn't change the fact that she gets more out of talking to her than to her own mom. The two of them just don't get along all that well.
( Some things you don't threaten, you just do. )
