Oh, the rich opportunities for embarrassment
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanOh Lordy.
I have ten days to acclimatise myself. Furtle Ma has hinted that it might be nice if we all meet up “In Town” for a meal on Easter Saturday. I am going to meet the in-laws, as it were. I can’t complain; it’s been nearly two years and Furtle has made the trip up to see my gang twice in that time (admittedly the second was in less than ideal circumstances). Nonetheless, ten days is time aplenty to allow the nerves to fray and all the hideous possibilities for embarrassment - that intellectually we know will not occur - to play out, ripen and enhance themselves in the imagination.
Still: history and beer shall be our saviours. I shall talk history with Furtle Ma and pour beer down the neck (hopefully the inside of the neck) of Furtle Pa. I shall be relatively abstemious myself, in my best bib and tucker (or at least, clean and presentable bib and tucker) and turn on the charm.
I can already feel the first flutterings of the butterflies. D-Day minus ten and counting.
I have ten days to acclimatise myself. Furtle Ma has hinted that it might be nice if we all meet up “In Town” for a meal on Easter Saturday. I am going to meet the in-laws, as it were. I can’t complain; it’s been nearly two years and Furtle has made the trip up to see my gang twice in that time (admittedly the second was in less than ideal circumstances). Nonetheless, ten days is time aplenty to allow the nerves to fray and all the hideous possibilities for embarrassment - that intellectually we know will not occur - to play out, ripen and enhance themselves in the imagination.
Still: history and beer shall be our saviours. I shall talk history with Furtle Ma and pour beer down the neck (hopefully the inside of the neck) of Furtle Pa. I shall be relatively abstemious myself, in my best bib and tucker (or at least, clean and presentable bib and tucker) and turn on the charm.
I can already feel the first flutterings of the butterflies. D-Day minus ten and counting.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 01:37 pm (UTC)And it'll be fine - just be yourself, you're a likeable enough chap!
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 01:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 02:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 02:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 02:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 02:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 03:24 pm (UTC)*treasured memory of Chalkie and my Nan facing off*
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 03:28 pm (UTC)Opera is a fine browser, though I prefer Firefox.
Er... that's not what you meant, is it?
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 03:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 03:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 03:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-13 12:51 pm (UTC)