From: Covenant@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: re: Here's a mind game..
Date: Wed Jun 29 21:57:35 1994

In message re: Here's a mind game.., Cat said:
> > guess i'm what you would call the [eccentric] one of the family....  

Man, you guys/gals have to meet my family.  Especially my old man.
We've all got tatoos (mom,dad,sister,me) and worship harleys. heheee

My old man takes the cake though.  I went home last year and saw
a wooden cross and some flowers behind the house.  I asked mom: "did one
of the cats die?".  "Nope", she said, "your dad like to go up to the graveyard
on his bike and dig through the trashcans".  He rides his bike with no shirt,
no socks, boots, cutoff shorts, and a suit vest.  He buys suit vests at yard
sales all of the time.  His hat is a ballcap with the bill cutoff.  I asked
him why he did that and he said the wind kept blowing it off.  I asked why
he didn't just wear it backwards and he said:  "yeah right.  I'd look like
one of those punk kids on Hondas".

I talked to him on the phone last fall and he was pissed off.  He said
that all of the leaves had fallen off of the trees and he could see our
'neighbors' porch light (one mile away).  He was getting ready to shoot it out
because he felt 'closed in'.  He's got a patched together chinese military
issue rifle that he uses to shoot groundhogs in the hayfield from the porch.
The man is my god:  I worship him unconditionally.

Mom's a refugee from Catholic school and if anyone gives her a bottle of
wine as a present, she mixes it with a slushed Boones Farm and goes for a walk 
along the railroad tracks.  I called her from school 6 years ago when I was a
freshman and she asked me:  "are you studying alot?".  I said some, but that
I'd been skipping my 8:00 Chem class because we were getting drunk 5 or 6 
nights a week and that my GPA was going to shit.  She said:  "Well, just
remember to have fun and not to study too hard.  If you study too hard you'll
just burn yourself out."  My mommy kicks ass.  She's the shit.

My sister follows The Dead now.  Not exclusively, but damn near.
She was voted Prom Queen in High School and tripped and fell down the stage
stairs drunk off of her ass at the dance when they anounced the candidates.  
She said she didn't even remember any of it nor did she care to.  Her airforce
cargo plane also hauled one of those released Iranian hostages (can't remember
the name) back to Germany.  They got hammered on the way to Germany as he
kept babbling about how long it had been since he had seen a woman.  I've 
seen her drink men 5 times her size under the table.  My little sis rules.

Sorry, guess I'm just getting homesick.  I do tend to brag them up
sometimes (though that is all true).  What can I say, they're the coolest
and most eccentric people I know.  Hmmmm, why did I write all of this?  Oh
well, talk to you all in chat.
  

Covenant,  The Appalachian