I was reading in a notebook we had kept the last few weeks of the Hero's life. He had gone over stories with our third daughter as a exercise in memory and telling her the stories. She wrote them down.
There was one in which she was a major player and remembered more that he did. Well I will let you decide if that is true or not, but I believe you will agree with her.
As told to Milly and edited by her: She said why is it me who takes the heat... he fell asleep! ; )
"It had been a long Wednesday. We had gone to youth activity and he worked in the church clerk office while I attended our youth activities. It was late when we left town, and started up the long dark country roads to get home. He seemed to be okay and chatted back at me, answering questions. Then we came to a stop sign just before we crossed a railroad track. He stopped, then started up turn and stopped with the front wheels on the railroad track and fell asleep. Just down the track was a train coming!
His memory and mine are different perspectives due to adrenaline rush at the time. I remember at first thinking this is really stupid, why are we stopped here? I looked over at daddy and knew he was asleep and thought, if I don't wake him up we might get hit. (no duh, my interjection) I also thought, 'I might get yelled at if I wake him up.' Logic overcame and I called at him and shook him to wake him up. He woke up and moved forward across the tracks to the other side in plenty of time. "
So who do you think would have remembered it better? This became a long term discussion and tease of the dad. He was comfortable enough with his weaknesses that he could laugh about it and tell the story on himself. It was even included at his funeral by his special friend.
The hero loved his children and the thought that he could have been a cause of harm to one upset him greatly. He loved them so very much. I will interject, he did go to a sleep study and they found an oxygen deficit. He had an oxygen machine for sleep. There is a reason for everything.
There was one in which she was a major player and remembered more that he did. Well I will let you decide if that is true or not, but I believe you will agree with her.
As told to Milly and edited by her: She said why is it me who takes the heat... he fell asleep! ; )
"It had been a long Wednesday. We had gone to youth activity and he worked in the church clerk office while I attended our youth activities. It was late when we left town, and started up the long dark country roads to get home. He seemed to be okay and chatted back at me, answering questions. Then we came to a stop sign just before we crossed a railroad track. He stopped, then started up turn and stopped with the front wheels on the railroad track and fell asleep. Just down the track was a train coming!
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| (She says she never felt Perilous Pauline... I would have.) |
So who do you think would have remembered it better? This became a long term discussion and tease of the dad. He was comfortable enough with his weaknesses that he could laugh about it and tell the story on himself. It was even included at his funeral by his special friend.
The hero loved his children and the thought that he could have been a cause of harm to one upset him greatly. He loved them so very much. I will interject, he did go to a sleep study and they found an oxygen deficit. He had an oxygen machine for sleep. There is a reason for everything.
Hello. If you fall asleep on a railroad track, you can expect to be teased about it for the rest of your life (and forever more). Glad it had a happy ending.
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