Grandpa Rides Again...

UPDATED TO ADD: Keep in mind that Grandpa himself has laughed about this story, although I'm not sure his son has. I love my husband's Grandfather dearly and would never want to make fun of him. That being said, this story is just too darn funny not to share! And Grandpa is not feeling well today so I know he would be glad to know he helped to make someone smile!


Okay, so I've mentioned Grandpa before. Well, he absolutely has outdone himself this time! Grandpa Archie is 86 and is diabetic. I think surely he must have lapsed into some sort of diabetic episode when this happened a while ago. Surely!

Let me start by telling you a bit about my husband's uncle. Grandpa's son. He is the 3rd of 4 children but you would definitely think he is the youngest by the way he acts. (No offense to all you "youngest kids" out there) He drinks, gambles, lies, cheats, never manages to keep a job, he threatened to shoot his ex wife once, and meant it. And now he lives with Grandpa. I didn't ask why, I can only imagine he was evicted or parolled or something.

So Grandpa and Uncle Elbert are going to town. Which around here means you are going to go off the mountain, ( we live on a mountain) on one side or another to a larger town where there is a WalMart, or at least more than one grocery store in that particular town. On this particular day they went off into a small town just across the Georgia line. Not sure why they were going but on the way there the car evidently made some sort of noise because when they stopped, Grandpa went in to the store and Elbert stayed outside to check out the car.

I don't really know how long Grandpa stayed in the store, but I do know it was long enough to forget Elbert was with him. I know this because he got in his car and started to pull away. Can you guess where Elbert was?? He was UNDER THE CAR. Now before I go any further I will tell you Elbert is alive. But only because of an angel of a man who saw what was happening and got Grandpa's attention and got him stopped. He did run over Elbert's arm though. Grandpa said he thought he felt a bump and he knew he'd hit somebody because when he got out of the car he could hear cursing coming from underneath it....pause...I'm laughing to hard to type....and he said he knew it was Elbert when he saw his platinum hair (not his natural color,..i have no explanation for it) coming out from under the car. Well, Grandpa apologized to Uncle Elbert for running him over with his car, but evidently this wasn't good enough to help
Elbert's feelings, because he continued to curse and stomp and pitch him a good fit. I think the only thing that stopped his fit pitching was when Grandpa got into his car and left him standing there, bleeding, in the parking lot. .

Elbert called his son to take him to the ER where they told him he had a broken arm but was a very lucky man,....ya think?? Anyway, it will be a miracle if these two can actually live in the same house without killing each other! Literally! Say a prayer, please. And include my Mother-in-Law and her other siblings who have to deal with the both of them!
And just you wait! I haven't EVEN started on my side of the family!