Monday, March 26, 2007

the joys of family

This story comes from a friend of mine:

My dad's first cousin - one of seventeen - died last week. I didn't know her. She had MS for years and developed sclerodoma in the lungs. She was 57 with a husband and two grown kids. My parents generation was very sad, and they and my grandmother traveled to Denver over the weekend for the funeral.

"How was it?" I asked my mom this morning.

"Your grandmother was soooo inappropriate! She wore a black velour warm up suit with rhinestones on it!"

Ah, family.

3 comments:

hughman said...

the rhinestones huh? eek!

DH - have you ever seen Leslie Hall of "Gem Sweater" fame?

http://www.lesliehall.com/

Anonymous said...

Velour!? outrageous! No velour before Memorial day, everybody knows that! Come on, People!

Anonymous said...

As you may recall, my mother-in-law famously work a fire-engine red track suit to my father's funeral because he died during the Christmas season.

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