When we got there we were just in time for the end of the Graduation Mass that is said the day before the Graduation.
If you listen carefully to the announcer, it sounds like he says "....you no longer deserve seats...."!
The Graduate and everyone else.
Grandpa Dan
After all the students and Faculty were seated there were a lot of extra empty seats with better views than where we were. So we moved. I ended up on the end, and when I got there no one was sitting next to me on my right.
I was wearing a shawl over my shoulders and as it started to slip off my right shoulder, while my left hand was fumbling with the camera, I was moving my right elbow in a wide circle trying to get the scarf back on my shoulder. But what I didn't know, was that while I was busy with the camera, moving my arm back and forth, and trying to pay attention, an older man came and stood next to me.
Up went my elbow for the umpteenth and last time and smacked him right in the face. I turned and saw him standing in the position I had hit him in. His face was annoyed and his glasses, which had very big lenses, were skewed with an ear end jutting into his hair and making it stick up and the other pushed down on his face.
"Oh, I am so sorry, " I said, as composedly as I could. He looked at me, gave me a slightly annoyed smile and said, " That's OK. Good upper arm though."
Later on I had Anna in my lap and she dropped a book at his feet. He picked it up and didn't give it back to her. I also had a camera in my hand and when she couldn't have her book back, and she saw the camera, she started to want it. He took that away from me. I got them back easily enough when I asked for them, but about 3/4 of the way through the commencement, he got up and moved to the other side of his group.
It was pretty funny. But I still feel bad about hitting him.
I know pictures of him would have made it funnier for you all, but I figure that he wouldn't have had the same perspective of the situation.
After Mom read this story, she asked me, "So he didn't give Anna the book back?" And I explained it. "Well," she said in a indignant tone, "He's just an old fart! If I were there I would have said, 'Excuse me? Let me have that book back now please!' I would have elbowed him again. The nerve. Not Letting MY grandaughter have her book back! And she's not even one yet! He's just and old fart. Fart, fart, fart, fart, fart. How dare he!"
2 comments:
Lol! Your mom is hilarious! Although it is weird that he didn't give Anna the book back. :P
Yeah, it was pretty funny.
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