Philip and Bong slept at the hospital to watch over my dad in the Intensive Care Unit. He sent the driver, Bernie, to pick me up along with Malou and Auntie Zelda (after 25 years, I just can't reprogram myself to start spelling her name correctly with the "S"). My dad had a couple of episodes throughout the night, but he was better when we got there.
PHILIP: Kiss your dad.
RYAN: Um, what?
PHILIP: Kiss your dad and tell him we're leaving to eat lunch.
RYAN: Won't that look gay?
PHILIP: No! You're his son!
I kissed my dad on the forehead before leaving to go eat lunch. We also asked his permission if it was ok for Auntie Zelda to leave tomorrow as planned to visit cousin Shiela in Washington, D.C. He said it was ok.
When we got home, Lola Ellie was praying in the living room. (Lola is the title for grandma or any other female elder relative.) She's my dad's aunt. Pretty healthy for a really old woman. She brought me casava cake.
We went back to the hospital with Lola Ellie. My dad caught me videotaping him. He made me stop taping him. As he slept in the ICU, we went to go chill in his assigned room. Suddenly, there was bad kareoke of Black Eyed Peas' I Got A Feeling - and in Tagalog! - booming through the walls.
PHILIP: They're lucky your dad's not in this room right now.
But eventually, it was so annoying that Philip went to management to inquire what the noise was, followed with a complaint. Plus, there were other patients anyway in their nearby rooms who unfortunately had to put up with it. It was the staff's Christmas party.
MANAGEMENT: You have to understand this is their Christmas party.
(Are you fucking -- F-U-C-K-I-N-G -- kidding me?!)
PHILIP: YOU have to understand this is a hospital where sick people are trying to rest!
The party stopped. Philip said if it started again, they would lose their jobs. You best believe that District Attorney Philip can realistically make it happen. We went to dinner.
PHILIP: I think they're mad that I stopped their party.
RYAN: If they say anything to you, I'll flex my muscles and intimidate them. From what I've seen, I'm bigger than all of them. I'll even wear a tighter shirt to make myself look bigger.
PHILIP: I should buy you a body shirt. (I guess that's what they call form fitting shirts here.) What if I bought you 1 with a midrift?
RYAN: I won't be able to intimidate anyone! Even if I held them high above the ground by their throat, against a wall, they will laugh at me.
I watched Stardust on TV. I remember watching this in theaters when it 1st came out, for free as I snuck into it during 1 of my movie hopping days.
Auntie Zelda is packing her stuff to leave for the airport at around 3 or 4AM in a few hours.
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