Interlude with.......

Current mood: hopeful

Its was a hot day.
The sun felt like a knife - a sharp physical thing mixing with the smog - forcing breath and making movement in a non AC building a force of will. It cooled off slightly but it was still warm.

My parents place is a high ceiling home predating the first world war that was purchased for 19 grand in 1971. I was raised in a pre gentrified hood with 3 brothers and 2 sisters and a parents who did this amidst the rumbling cultural background of the 70..s and early 80..s. Informal was the philosophy of note with kids at the time - a Polynesian cultural background helped fuel the laid back-ness.

Now a newly minted grandparents the kids came by with the g-kids - the oldest nearly three yeas old. CDV - Cassy.

The heat helped with the laid back nature of the day - we had an informal table and I was gulping a drink of some sort while lazily tipping my chair back. ---not a good ideal ---a slight choking motion and my drink is all over my gray T shirt

Preoccupied with my mess I step out of the dining room - the dining room has curtains obscuring the living room- so I have pull off my T-Shirt and ineffectually try to dab the liquid off my body.

My brother pulls out my dad..s box of t shirts and tosses me one - as I keep dabbing off with one hand I re enter the dining room with not one thought in the world to my momentary topless ness - surrounded by my numerous family members who have seen me at the beach many times.

Well except for one - who apparently due to convoluted circumstance never saw or at least understood what she was seeing until that moment - a topless adult male human


Cassandra stood up on the chair - looked at me and said in a loud definitive voice to every family member within earshot


UNCLE KENNYS NAKED!!!!!!

HES NAKED !!!!!!

UNCLE KENNYS NAKED!!!!!!!!!!

I put on the shirt - ..I..m not naked Cassy..

YOU ARE ! YOUR NAKED!!