Sunday, May 11, 2008

Was that a backhanded comment?

So my grandmother is in town for my sister's graduation. I have this issue with needy people (stronger lately than in my past). Anyway, take the most needy person you know and magnify that by 100. This is my loving grandmother. No matter how bad of a day you've had, she has had a worse day (and wants you to hear every part of it). She has been upset that we have not spent enough time with her or that we haven't visited her in a while.

So today we were all in the kitchen talking when she says tells this story of how when she fell and busted her chin. This was several months ago and I expressed my concern when the incident happened. But today she busts out with "My chin looked like yours when I busted it." We all looked at her like she was crazy. Then she explains that it was bleeding and they applied some type of adhesive to close the cut. She had a scab form and it was on her chin for a few days. She talked about how she was so embarrassed to have that on her chin that she couldn't leave the house. Then she points to my beard and says, it look just like that.

We all laugh and then I start to think about it. Did she just insult me to my face and I laughed at it? I see I have so much to learn from her still. Well played madam, well played...

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