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2007-09-07 . 11:46 a.m. - Two for one FridayHoly shit! Second post in one day!
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I just got a call from my dad.
His calls almost always follow the same comforting/predictable formula:
- He tells me about some good restaurant he & my mom went to.
- We talk about the next time we'll be seeing each other (this month they're coming up and we're going to Animal Kingdom).
- He tells a "punny" joke (RE: Animal Kingdom - "I can wait to go. I hear it's a jungle out there")
- He gives me some bad news (last time it was that my uncle in Uruguay has something wrong with his back - slipped disk or pinched nerve - and might require surgery). This time it was that one of the restaurant's regulars (the father of a kid I went to elementary school with) finally lost his battle with cancer at age 71.
- Then he ends with a good joke which usually reminds me of a joke I heard so I respond with my joke.
I talk to my mom on the phone every other day (if not every day). My dad & I only talk on the phone about once a month or every two months. Every time he calls, I get a sick feeling in my stomach because I'm afraid he's going to drop a bomb on me. It's probably because the first time he ever called me in the middle of the work day was to tell me that my grandpa had died. I knew the reason he had called instead of my mom was because, unlike my mom, he was holding his shit together. That's understandable, considering it was my mom's father who had passed.
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Anyway, I'm still kind of reeling from the news that Restaurant Regular is dead leaving behind two sons, one of which is my age. Especially since the way my dad and I remember him (great sense of humor, great storyteller) is the same way I'll one day have to remember my own dad.
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Crying at work is not cool.
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