Hello Clockers. I've been away from blogging recently due to the death of my father on June 10th. When I went back to my hometown .... my close first cousin who I hadn't seen in decades came to his funeral. I hadn't even spoken with him in decades also... but despite this..... we both had and have great memories of our times as cousins/friends/kids.
I'd like to describe for readers now.... just how our initial meeting after a quarter of a century... proceeded. .... We were staying at the same hotel (my wife and daughter coming in from a flight that day) as my cousin. We had just missed him at my stepmothers. .... And my family was coming in with `swimming noodles' and luggage and this distinguished `older' (he's all of 6 months older) guy gets up from the hotel bar area in the lobby... looking at us and immediately smiling. For a moment I'm wondering who this is... before immediately knowing.
His wife had just went up to the room as they had waited for about a half hour... not knowing when we'd get over to the hotel..... and after greetings to all... my family proceeded up to the room while I remained behind with my close cousin.... we had an adult lifetime of stories to catch up upon... or to relive what we shared as youths. He had no idea about my books, blogging, etc.
Since he had a beer in front of him... he immediately asks what he can get me.... I had a coke. He calls out to the bartender... Coke. And then turns to me to begin our first conversation as `old' adults and he excitedly and eagerly begins to talk first. Below are the first words out of his mouth.
"Do you remember the time we saw the UFO's?"
I about crapped in my pants.
He continued with a fairly detailed story... and his time-frame and memory of the house we lived in was dead on... as was his memory of my small telescope. (This was exactly 49-50 years ago.) Seemingly he was relating a real occurrence. And what he related is below (paraphrased):.... after I looked at him with less than an acknowledging face or answer:
"We were outside on the roof over your garage with the telescope and saying crazy things and stuff about UFO's. When all of a sudden THREE strange lights in the sky suddenly lite up and started wiggling around in the sky seemingly independently of each other... but close to each other. YOU (myself) went BERSERK... and we went to get your mother... and she came out to see them too.... we were yelling and excited... it went on and on for about 20-30 minutes... and then they all at once kind of `swished' real fast and went up and vanished."
I about crapped.
How could I ever forget such an experience? .... Or had I forgotten?.... Was a twinge of the experience coming back.. with his vivid retelling?
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The next day my mother and step-father came to the viewing of my dad.... and my cousin still has the fondest memories of her. The question now was ... how would she react to the story... which was then re-told once again for her..... she would have been about 32... prime adult ....
And she also could NOT confirm the UFO story.
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