pstlyfdiva's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel. Dreidel I will play My grandmother is flighty. I don't mean dumb or stupid...she just doesn't think and if something doesn't correlate with what is in "her world" she does 1 of 2 things: ignores it or assimilates it. (Assimilation in this sense means shoving the square peg into the round hole, no matter how ill-fitting it is.) One of my favorite stories of her assimilation in the past 5 or 6 years has been her beloved Christmas sweater. She wears this thing to all sorts of holiday events -- parties, shopping, church, everywhere. There is one teeny tiny problem with this sweater...it is a Chanukah sweater!!! It has gold menorahs all over it -- that have bejeweled candles in them. My sister, father and I have sniggered about this for years and still, she remained clueless. Well, this year it happened...a woman walked up to her in the mall and complimented her on her lovely Chanukah sweater and commented on how hard it is to find Chanukah sweaters. She apparently mentioned the menorahs, etc. My grandmother didn't even know what a menorah was! Very uncharacteristically she was gracious and said thank you. Of course none of this stopped her from wearing it to church on Christmas Eve this year. 2:08 p.m. - 2005-12-28 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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