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Huh?
By juliezavala in My Turn
January 6, 2011

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Yesterday when I got home from work my dad and I drove out to Port Lavaca just to be going somewhere. As we drove past plowed fields, daddy commented on how nice and even they looked. He told me that the railroad track at one time was on the right side of the road and they moved it, oh...maybe in the last 5 years, to the other side of the road. He said, it looks much better doesn't it?

And later: "Do you remember the time that thing happened one day and how it was fixed by somebody. Do you remember their name?" he asked. I paused and then slowly looked over at him and then back at the road. I told him, Daddy, I don't know what the heck you're talking about!" Then he burst out laughing and said, "I was wondering myself how you were going to answer that question!"

I think my dad's Alzheimer's disease has a funny sense of humor to go with it. Or maybe that's just the way it's struck him. He was always a joking man before he got sick... Gotta' love it.