When checking into my hotel recently, I felt like I had taken on the role of Dr. Phil or something.
The conversation started normally enough. She says "We have your [frequent stay] club number on file, and thanks for being a [member at the highest level]". To which my standard response is - "Well, it just means I'm away from home a lot". "Yeah, my dad's a trucker, so I know how that is".
And then it got weird.
She tells me how her dad divorced her mom after 20 years of marriage and after having three children. Said I was sorry to hear that, thinking that was it. Well, he divorced her mom to marry her mom's sister. So now, she has a mom, and an aunt/step-mom which, as you can imagine, created a certain amount of family tension for quite a while. And they all lived in the same town of fewer than 15,000 people.
Aunt/step-mom and dad also have a child between them. After 10 years of marriage, they split up.
And he quickly marries a third woman - a cousin. And they move out of town and all but disappear.
No, I did not hear "Deliverance" banjo music, but I may be rethinking staying at this particular hotel in the future.......
Wow, that's...awesome!
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