"Dear people I have been subjected to at the car dealership waiting room for the last 10 minutes...some sage, well-worn advice I find to be fundamentally useful to everyone around me at times: please...shut the hell up. Your children are far from precocious and charming and you yourselves appear to have as much intellectual and social capital as Mogadishu has a working government. You are annoying...
Rant over. Everyone carry on."
I'm gonna call it #ThrowBackTuesday but really I'm posting this because today would be the 111th birthday of my paternal grandfather (my youngest grandparent). Granny was two years older than he was.
This photo was taken within a week of his death. My parents hadn't even met yet.
Dad, his sister, and their father and mother. They were driving my aunt back to college and stopped somewhere when this photo was taken. Dad's father had already had one stroke and was less than a week from the final one. My grandfather was 51 - Dad was 21.