one of your best - thank god you were prepared with 20 Yrs of 
therapy!!!!  and were a good example for Peanut!
~deb

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> The Haijj is over ; the great spiritual journey of driving ones 88 yr 
> old cigar smoking crusty father who can't pee straight and my sister 
> the former Bob Hope bomb shell who entertained the troops from China 
> Beach to Pleiku with busty preformances of the Gong show  to give  it 
> all up to join Sai Baba  of (Don't worry be Happy) fame plus  the 
> familys two identical Maine Coon cats now caged who would'nt  give a 
> rats ass  if they could get a claw into you . and given half a chance 
> .... they did  when I fed them
>
> My sister is right out of central casting ;
> as someone who burned her bra in central park in 65 she still has two 
> hostile projectiles that can still hold the vision of  the common man
> She is I would say a free spirit ; as someone who is not  opposed to 
> disrobing on the beach to worship the sun ; or using coarse language 
> to tell you off  .
> This of course is  polar opposite to Daddy who smokes  Romeo and 
> Julliets special reserve in a corona ; wears the same paint spattered 
> clothes ;listens to Rush liombaugh and is adversed to bathing in water 
> unless its in his whiskey .
>
> Then there is me ; the wheel man ; the Choffer -;the bag man for the 
> both of them because they can't keep cash or a nickle or a credit card 
> in their pocket because they both forget ;
> then they fight because neither one can keep a decent conversation ; 
> as it always was in this family 
> one has to be right and the other has to wrong and oh boy the one who 
> is wrong is stupid and shamed  ...a tennis match of absurdity
> At this point I am rolling my eyes ;10.000 years of recorded human 
> history (if you count the paintings in the dordonge ) and its the same 
> shit .
> Predictability  the argument then gets personal ....then  the furr 
> flys ;.....then the  cats crap .
>
> Its the middle of the night and we are driving down 29 South into the 
> Blue ridge Mountains south of Charlottesville dodging rummies 
> returning home from clog dancing at road houses .
> Were going to vist our mothers tomb in the morning up in the Drummond  
> hill country of Cold Mountain near Amherst .
> Mama's  buried now 40 years; and sister is starting to emote over 
> what a bastard the old man was ;
> To retaleate The old man is talking story about what a pain in the ass 
> sister was and is pushing her buttons..... and mine becausing I am 
> driving and I don't need this shit .
>
> The bickering and the argument between them and I feel like i am in 
> the back seat of the station waggon when I was five and mom and dad 
> would have at it over some bullshit  that didn't make sence then and 
> sure as hell dosen't make sence now 
>
> Only this time Iis me at the wheel and I am doing my best at recalling 
> and invoking 20yrs of therarpy to prepare me for this moment ; this 
> divine moment when all the stars in the universe are twinkling at me 
> through the  trees ;
> the beautiful fall trees of the Blue ridge mountains and I am going 
> down hill twisting and turning on  hair pin  turns and these two 
> numbkulls  who I am related to and ; who are essentially the same 
> actors of my childhood  recreating the same stress and provacative 
> uglyness as it was when I was five and wanted to throw myself from the 
> car just to be out of it
>
> only this time I can't ;
> I am holding the fucking wheel yelling at them to shut the fuck up 
> through the blue cigar smoke and the dim lights of the dash
> ; to which they in  turn , now turn on me ;and are  yelling at me to 
> shut the fuck up as it is their fight ;and now the cats are crapping 
> and meowing and everybodys yelling  at everybody .....and I am having 
> one of those unearthly dejuvue moments wondering if its not better  
> just  to drive the car over the cliff and incarnate another time ;
> but  the problem is peanuts in my rear view mirror
> and so I am ....as they say in the trade.... stucco
> I now  miss my turn and devise a plan to refuse to drive anymore until 
> they cut all of the  crap (and this includes the cats ).
> I get everyone to appologize before moving on ;
> Its late
> the old man needs a bath ; sister needs a valuium ,and I am ready to 
> leave my body  if I don't make a beverage and a bed real soon .
> Who ever said its not the trip  but the journey ?
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