One day, about 20 years ago, my mom and I were in her Den. She'd let me come over and watch Kung Fu theater on her big TV. After a particularly rousing battle, I turned it off.
She asked me for the newspaper TV guide so she could do the crossword. I rolled it up, and tossed it six feet across the room right into her waiting hand! She caught it perfectly!
The paper had fluttered and flapped on the way, like a kung fu Masters robes when he flies through the air, so I said in my best imitation deep deep kung fu movie voice "Your Kung Fu! It is Most Powerful!!!"
She looked at me over the top of her eyeglasses, and with a poker face let out the deepest kung fu movie Master laugh slowly "Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!", then went on to read her paper. She was in her sixties.
I fell on the floor!!!! She can't stand the chop chop movies, and to think she absorbed enough of them to do that perfect comeback. I'll always treasure that moment.
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