Father's Day

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[fledgist.livejournal.com]

A very formal family.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Kind of. Then again, that photo was taken in 1957 and people living in the countryside dressed up for such momentous occasion as having their photo taken with their not-quite-2-yeas-old eldest.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Who is looking very curiously at the photographer and wondering why all this is going on.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I was a curious kid who experimented. The only thing I remember from being in that house (which was my father's mother's) was my coming across a finger-sized tube of rigid plastic and putting it in my grandmother's meatgrinder.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

How sore was your derriere afterwards?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I don't think my posteriority suffered, but I may have been verbally chastised. I could ask my mom, but this was 50 years ago. Considering that, when I asked her a few years ago about what I had been like as a child, overall, she couldn't tell me so I expect she wouldn't remember about this specific an event.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. I know my father couldn't remember a number of things when I last spoke to him in person a few months before he died. I suppose the memory does fade after half a century.