Virgil

OK, I thought of an embarressing moment. Nothing compared to what I've seen so far, but this past memory came to me while I was visiting my mother at the rehab this evening.

Let's see, I must have been around ten years old, maybe younger. So this goes back thirty something years. I was walking home from school and my mother was about a half a block behind me, and I think I was walking ahead with a friend. Coming the other way on the street was another friend, or he may not have been a friend, let's just saya school mate. As we are passing I lift my hand to sort of wave hello and it accidentally hits his books that he's carrying in his hand and they fall to the ground. Someone laughs, maybe the friend I was walking with, and it all appears as if I had knocked his books out of his hand on purpose. Well, he picks them up and continues, and I continue ahead, both in opposite directions. All of a sudden I felt a kick to my back, not hard, but enough to make me stumble. It probably appeared harsher than it was. It was the kid I accidentally knocked his books down. He had decided to get even. Anyway, my mother sees all this and rushes up and grabs that kid and flings him against a parked car and is ready to smack him. She starts yelling at him in Italian. Well, I'm completely embarressed. Mothers can't do that. But the next day he comes up to me in front of the other boys and tells everyone and says that when he told his father, his father decided he's going to sue my family. Now I'm really in a panic. What was i going to do? I didn't know if I should tell my parents or what. I didn't, and he tells me another day his father has gone to a lawyer and the suit would be coming, and I believed that for an entire week. So I was embarressed when my mother interjected and I was embarressed when the kid said it in front of all the other guys and I was embaressed all week when the kid kept mentioning it, and I was embarressed and also relieved when he told me his father changed his mind.

Anyway that's my embarressing story. By the way, mom will be out of rehab and back home on Friday if things continue to go well. She seems like she's over the blood clot thing, she's walking with the walker all about, and now they have her trying to do stairs.