When Blood Collides
Viewing comments for Chapter 29 "Jeff's Gaffe"A family's love is tested.
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Comment from alexisleech
Your last paragraph brought a smile to my face. The ape length arms and meaty hands created a great visual in my head. As for the "How is the boring table doing?" I would have wanted to slap him in the chops! At least the restaurant took like fun. I enjoyed the little tour. To be honest, I don't think the pumpkins were necessary, the place had enough going on already.
I can also identify with the 'groupie' comment. What is about youngsters that they have to be in a crowd seeking approval? I look forward to reading about the actual wedding. No doubt your witty sense of humour will be in overdrive!
Alexis x
reply by the author on 31-May-2015
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Your last paragraph brought a smile to my face. The ape length arms and meaty hands created a great visual in my head. As for the "How is the boring table doing?" I would have wanted to slap him in the chops! At least the restaurant took like fun. I enjoyed the little tour. To be honest, I don't think the pumpkins were necessary, the place had enough going on already.
I can also identify with the 'groupie' comment. What is about youngsters that they have to be in a crowd seeking approval? I look forward to reading about the actual wedding. No doubt your witty sense of humour will be in overdrive!
Alexis x
Comment Written 31-May-2015
reply by the author on 31-May-2015
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Working on the wedding now. Thank goodness I have the video to refresh my memory. This all happened thirteen years ago. Appreciate your comments.
Hugs,
Shari
Comment from Eigle Rull
A half-hour drive bought (brought) us to the long canopy entrance of the reddish orange stucco Italian restaurant.
This well written chapter was fun to read. I enjoyed the description of the restaurant. The video also gave it an interesting flare.
This chapter kept my attention very easily. I imagined all the guests seated around the spook shop eating pizza and trying to entertain themselves. I'm sorry, but I cannot bring myself to like Jeff.
You've done an excellent job of making this chapter exciting and real. I imagine you are waiting patiently for the end of the wedding, when I hope you can have some special time with your daughter. Maybe her husband can go entertain his own side of the family.
Always with respect,
reply by the author on 31-May-2015
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A half-hour drive bought (brought) us to the long canopy entrance of the reddish orange stucco Italian restaurant.
This well written chapter was fun to read. I enjoyed the description of the restaurant. The video also gave it an interesting flare.
This chapter kept my attention very easily. I imagined all the guests seated around the spook shop eating pizza and trying to entertain themselves. I'm sorry, but I cannot bring myself to like Jeff.
You've done an excellent job of making this chapter exciting and real. I imagine you are waiting patiently for the end of the wedding, when I hope you can have some special time with your daughter. Maybe her husband can go entertain his own side of the family.
Always with respect,
Comment Written 31-May-2015
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LOL-- you got me on a spelling error. You're progressing nicely.
Appreciate your last thought, but it didn't happen until the next morning.
Comment from Jay Squires
Jeff seems like a control-freak who absolutely lacks tact. In the latter it doesn't exhibit much intelligence.
I looked up to see his thick curly hair and buffalo head swivel right, then left. [I love the descriptiveness of this line, Shari. Your image is insuppressible in its love for your new son-in-law.
Good chapter, Shari
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Jeff seems like a control-freak who absolutely lacks tact. In the latter it doesn't exhibit much intelligence.
I looked up to see his thick curly hair and buffalo head swivel right, then left. [I love the descriptiveness of this line, Shari. Your image is insuppressible in its love for your new son-in-law.
Good chapter, Shari
Comment Written 31-May-2015
reply by the author on 31-May-2015
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Chuckle, chuckle. That whole description pretty much sums up how I felt about him. Actually, the control-freak is my daughter, but she lets him have his way at the wrong times. Another episode on that years later.
Comment from w.j.debi
You have me seething at this snub. Since when are the bride's mother and father not part of the bridal party? Who gives her away? Friends come and go over the years as circumstances and locations change, but parents are forever. Okay, I am not a parent, but I can see why you would reach a breaking point at such treatment. As you say, you just want to spend some time with your daughter at what is supposed to be one of the most important events of her life. Jeff certainly doesn't know how to behave like a gentleman, does he?
The video of the restaurant is amazing. It does look like a carnival.
reply by the author on 31-May-2015
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You have me seething at this snub. Since when are the bride's mother and father not part of the bridal party? Who gives her away? Friends come and go over the years as circumstances and locations change, but parents are forever. Okay, I am not a parent, but I can see why you would reach a breaking point at such treatment. As you say, you just want to spend some time with your daughter at what is supposed to be one of the most important events of her life. Jeff certainly doesn't know how to behave like a gentleman, does he?
The video of the restaurant is amazing. It does look like a carnival.
Comment Written 31-May-2015
reply by the author on 31-May-2015
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That sixer means so much too me, as this particular episode is painful to remember. I've had a vicious stomach ache for three days. Wonder it its related!
I hadn't thought about us as a part of bridal party. All I could think was that she wanted to separate the young and the old. Or maybe she had had enough of his parents, but couldn't very well include us and not them. Just a thought I had now.
Comment from walbc
Jeff sounds like a real little charmer. And his parents sound like a fucking nightmare, excuse the language. I think you've done very well so far in not giving Jeff a slap or two.
Your story remains interesting Shari, and you always know when to stop just at the crucial moment.
warm regards, wendy.
reply by the author on 31-May-2015
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Jeff sounds like a real little charmer. And his parents sound like a fucking nightmare, excuse the language. I think you've done very well so far in not giving Jeff a slap or two.
Your story remains interesting Shari, and you always know when to stop just at the crucial moment.
warm regards, wendy.
Comment Written 31-May-2015
reply by the author on 31-May-2015
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Yes, Have to keep them wanting more. Hope to post again, tomorrow.
Comment from Sasha
I know you said you had a good time, but it sounds like you are being treated like second class citizens. Maybe I was lucky my daughters semi-eloped...a lot less for me to worry about.
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I know you said you had a good time, but it sounds like you are being treated like second class citizens. Maybe I was lucky my daughters semi-eloped...a lot less for me to worry about.
Comment Written 30-May-2015
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That's how it's comes off at the reception too. Sigh. But the wedding itself was a hoot and a great memory for everyone. My nephew had its second wedding on the Queen Mary with bagpipe players to entertain as we entered. We stayed overnight on the ship. That, I'll always remember too.
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How fun that must have been. I am glad the wedding was a hoot...at least something good to remember.
Comment from Phyllis Stewart
Yep, our generation gets pushed off to another table at our kids' weddings. Their friends come first. We're just the old fogies in their eyes. Hard to accept, but that's life. :)
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Yep, our generation gets pushed off to another table at our kids' weddings. Their friends come first. We're just the old fogies in their eyes. Hard to accept, but that's life. :)
Comment Written 30-May-2015
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Oh well, some day they'll feel the same pain. LOL Not Nichole though since she chose not to have babies.
Comment from sibhus
Nice ending, just goes to emphasis what an ass Jeff is. Good details that really help to set the scene. I watch the video after reading, and I think you captured the place really well with your words. the in-laws sound like such a lovely group of buffoons. They aren't from Illinois, are they? They sound so much like my brothers in-laws. A really good chapter, Spitfire.
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Nice ending, just goes to emphasis what an ass Jeff is. Good details that really help to set the scene. I watch the video after reading, and I think you captured the place really well with your words. the in-laws sound like such a lovely group of buffoons. They aren't from Illinois, are they? They sound so much like my brothers in-laws. A really good chapter, Spitfire.
Comment Written 30-May-2015
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LOL. You mean there are other people like that? Carol and Tom lived in Kansas, but Miami and California before that. Move the idiots around.
Comment from Sis Cat
Engaging read. I enjoyed the mixture of the macabre with Halloween with the lightness of a wedding. Vivid descriptions and dialogue helped me see people and scene. The mother's angst over being perceived at too old for this hip party resonated with me. The ending kept me guessing and wanting to know what happens next. Thank you for sharing.
reply by the author on 30-May-2015
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Engaging read. I enjoyed the mixture of the macabre with Halloween with the lightness of a wedding. Vivid descriptions and dialogue helped me see people and scene. The mother's angst over being perceived at too old for this hip party resonated with me. The ending kept me guessing and wanting to know what happens next. Thank you for sharing.
Comment Written 30-May-2015
reply by the author on 30-May-2015
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Thanks, Cat. Next write will be posted Tuesday, I hope.
Comment from Dean Kuch
Angelo's and Vinci's Ristorante sounds like my kinda place, Spit. Hell, any place that has over-sized dummies of King Kong, Dracula, Frankenstein, witches and ghosts (and wine!) can't be all bad, right? Not to mention the Italian cuisine, of course, which I'm sure was delicious.
Jeff...he sounds like a real ass. I can understand why you didn't (or still don't?) like him. I don't know if your daughter, Nichole, is still married to him or not, but if she is, I suppose he would be like an ivy upon a stony wall somewhere.
He'd have to grow on you.
If you can't access advanced editor, you can create italics using using HTML tags, Shari. Just click on this link Absolute Beginners Guide to HTML Tags to learn how to do it. Your text goes in between the tags, so it looks like this when finished, "Your Text Here". Where there's a will, there's always a way. :}
~Dean
reply by the author on 30-May-2015
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Angelo's and Vinci's Ristorante sounds like my kinda place, Spit. Hell, any place that has over-sized dummies of King Kong, Dracula, Frankenstein, witches and ghosts (and wine!) can't be all bad, right? Not to mention the Italian cuisine, of course, which I'm sure was delicious.
Jeff...he sounds like a real ass. I can understand why you didn't (or still don't?) like him. I don't know if your daughter, Nichole, is still married to him or not, but if she is, I suppose he would be like an ivy upon a stony wall somewhere.
He'd have to grow on you.
If you can't access advanced editor, you can create italics using using HTML tags, Shari. Just click on this link Absolute Beginners Guide to HTML Tags to learn how to do it. Your text goes in between the tags, so it looks like this when finished, "Your Text Here". Where there's a will, there's always a way. :}
~Dean
Comment Written 30-May-2015
reply by the author on 30-May-2015
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That sounds too complicated. I suspect I have a virus somewhere.
Nichole and Jeff are still together. She's learned how to handle him and he loves her unconditionally. That's a big plus. She owes us a visit and Frank wished she'd come alone. But I've decided to make peace with the beast so I don't have to deal with him in the next carnation.
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I got 'cha. That's probably best.
