tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post8563659942501977868..comments2024-03-11T00:26:35.303-07:00Comments on The Many Banes of My Existence by Alexis: AlexisARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-74774283700632709532013-10-21T21:00:26.167-07:002013-10-21T21:00:26.167-07:00We had an extended Gypsy family show up in my old ...We had an extended Gypsy family show up in my old town. I can't say what their names were, but one family had a surname that began with the letter P. do you remember a swimming pool game playe dbyt kids in which the "it" person had too keep his or her eyes clsed and holler out "M----," after which all the other game participants responded with "P---" so that "it" could hear their voices and possibly know where they are? One of the families with the surname"P---" actually named their kid "M---- P---." The adult females in this extended clan wore brightly colored scrunchies on their arms. This was when it was semi-in for little girls to wear scrunchies in their hair, but I'd never heard of anyone of any age wering them on their arms. This extended family of maybe 25 families moved into a single hotel room in our town and was there until they were evicted. They befriended the aging husband of one of my mom's secretaries, who was in the early stages of dementia, and stole all kids of stuff from the man. His wife had to work. She put everything of value that the couple owned that she could get her hands on under lock and key, but she couldn't lock her husband up, and he wasn't far gone enough to be placed in a care facility. The gypsies even got his wedding ring. The gypsies eventually moved out as quickly as they had moved in.<br /><br />My mom had seen gypsies in action in Ireland when she was a child. Her mom moved herself the kids to stay with my mom's aunt when my grandfather was in Viet Nam in the mid- 60's. the Biitish isles has a stronger gypsy presence - probably all of Europe does, for that matter -- than does the U.S. No one at the school district office believed my mom initially when she said these people were gypsies, but soon enough everyone believed it. AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-31554182052229579032013-10-21T18:03:14.585-07:002013-10-21T18:03:14.585-07:00Get well soon! I look at that girl's "pa...Get well soon! I look at that girl's "parents" and wonder about the mental status of the father. Not fair, but it's my honest reaction.knottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127277724751832329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-54306485243584241462013-10-21T08:09:47.483-07:002013-10-21T08:09:47.483-07:00Take some Motrin and feel better soon! Take some Motrin and feel better soon! Becca Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17403719165386951527noreply@blogger.com