Meg's Musings

Snapshot from Christmas Dinner

Scene: Christmas dinner everyone is around the table getting ready to eat off the fine Bavarian china of my now-deceased gram. Grandpa is taking pictures while food is passed. Aunt Karol and Uncle Chuck have been there for a week, Tonna and Greg are just happy to see their lovely daughter.

Aunt Karol: Would you like some stuffing?
Vic: Hell yeah. (takes a bite of potatoes) You know I knew a guy that drew birds out in.... one of those states out east.
Meg: Really?
Vic: It was like those birds you guys got out there in Idaho. Where's my camera?
Chuck: Around your neck.
Vic: What are those birds called?
Tonna: Hawks?
Chuck: Eagles?
Vic: No no no. The ones that dive!
Meg: Hawks...ospreys...eagles..seagulls?
Tonna: Owls?
Greg: Owls?
Vic Hell no!
Karol: The stuffing has mushrooms in it.
Tonna: The mushrooms really add a little something to it.
Vic: What? You guys have pictures drawn by that guy. Two of them.
(Adult children and grandchild all look at each other)
Vic: Where the coffee?
Karol: I'll get the coffee.
Vic: They're big birds.
Chuck: big bird? yellow guy.
Meg: Vultures?
Greg: Condors?
Vic: They perch on telephone posts out in Idaho!
(Tonna and Greg look at each other, dumbfounded)
Tonna: Osprey? Owls?
Meg: Crows? Grackles?
Chuck: Red Wing Blackbirds!
Karol: Pass the turkey Greg. We have turkey.
Chuck: It's not a turkey.
Vic: Then what the hell is it?
Karol: (with sigh and roll of her eyes) The bird you're talking about isn't turkey. This is turkey.
Tonna: It's very tender.
Meg: Please pass the salt...Ducks? Cormorants?
Vic: You guys have pictures of them! He drew them!
Tonna: Oh, the eagle and the owl.
Vic: Yeah yeah, I think it was an osprey. You still got the pictures of the eagle and the osprey? Those were good drawings. Very detailed.
Greg: Yeah, yeah, we've got those!
Meg: Where?
Tonna: (to Greg) But the osprey is an owl, right? The osprey is an owl. It is an owl?
Greg:(nods) Yeah. I think so.
Tonna (to Meg): It's an owl.
*Coversation takes an abrupt turn.*
Vic: I have a poster of Sigmund Freud. It's a good poster. (holds up hands) about this big. You've been in that house about how long?
Meg: year and a half. (smiling) Are you freudian?
Vic: hell no! I wouldn't follow his stuff if...
Tonna: only drug he believed in was a 7% solution of cocaine.

Conversation continues.

I love my family.

posted by Me @ 10:39