birthday card from Ral@~ my grandfather
Nov. 2nd, 2005 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transmothrathe other day, when i was at the hospital, i picked up the birthday card from my grandfather and stashed it and left without mentioning it.
it's just that i don't want to upset him. he forgets things now, and my birthday was not something i wanted him to worry his sweet heart about.
i did look at it, though. i've been looking at it, actually.
the only handwriting in it is this:
...scrawled in barely-legible chicken-scratch.
he never, ever signs cards for me like that. it's always either "RJ" or, more often, "G-pa".
this means he didn't know what he was signing, or for whom. then he [somewhat suddenly] corrected (hence the unfinished "Ralph"), and wrote something different. probably on a cue from my dad, who obviously picked up the card.
i wish, for so many reasons, that my stupid birthday would have just gone away perfectly.
it's just that i don't want to upset him. he forgets things now, and my birthday was not something i wanted him to worry his sweet heart about.
i did look at it, though. i've been looking at it, actually.
the only handwriting in it is this:
Ralp your grandfather
...scrawled in barely-legible chicken-scratch.
he never, ever signs cards for me like that. it's always either "RJ" or, more often, "G-pa".
this means he didn't know what he was signing, or for whom. then he [somewhat suddenly] corrected (hence the unfinished "Ralph"), and wrote something different. probably on a cue from my dad, who obviously picked up the card.
i wish, for so many reasons, that my stupid birthday would have just gone away perfectly.
