6.06.2005

man i have had a tiring past two weeks...
my adventures in mississippi: part one
i had to fly to greenwood, missisippi, the cotton capital of the world, to see my grandpa before he died. on may 24th, we flew down on this small jet to st. louis then we had to fly to memphis [we were gonna drive from there into greenwood] in a damn propeller plane. oh and by the way my mother and i were travelling with and were going to be staying with my neurotic aunt. she can't drive, and gets lost easy [proving males right smh], she also worries over shit that no one else would think much else about and is the biggest hypochondriac. i don't know why my mother didn't make a car reservation but next time i know she will. my aunt joan is heavy on the gas and heavy on the brake so we get that jerking motion when she drives. she had been down to mississippi like 6+ times before so she SHOULD know where she's going but she doesnt so she turns the opposite way we should be going everytime she takes a damn turn. naturally i take note of what is around and try to remember which is the proper way to go so we can leave when we need to. so we get to greenwood which isn't that big and check into our hotel, take a nap and later go see my granpa at the hospital, oh god he looked like a damn skeleton just all skin and bones, i could see his teeth where his cheeks were . grandpa's sister eveleana was also in the hospital because she had just had her legs amputed due to diabetes. the next day we see him at the hospital again, then we went to aunt minnie's house who is my grandpa's sister. another thing, i haven't been in mississippi in 16 years. my aunt charlie mae, whom my mom is named after, was there [visiting from chitown] also. immediately they became my two favorite great aunts, they are so real, i just like their energy lol. they both tell it straight but aunt minnie is more blunt with it. then we see grandpa again, this twice a day visitation becomes tiring to my mom and i and also to granpa cuz he becomes less receptive to us, mommy and i can both see it. then we head to walmart which is the biggest store in greenwood. they don't have any real malls, and what they do call a mall consists of piggly wiggly, jc penny and cvs. so yea we go into walmart and my mom keeps gettin stared at, now i, being the possessive child i am, stare at these country ass fools and my mother accuses me of blocking, i'm like "so what, you aint gettin a country husband." we go back to the hotel with the ac on low and its deathly hot but my aunt doesn't like all that cold air on her . the ac at the hotel is on low as hell too cuz "its so cold" man i swear my aunt brought her sweater with her everywhere and wore it like 85% of the time we were down there. i would turn it up at night cuz we can't sleep when its warm/hot. on thursday, we saw granpa and he was getting discharged so we waited for him to get shipped back to his house and to get the hospital bed set up. now he's technically still married to my grandmother but he left springfield about 40 years ago and moved in with this other lady and her family, becoming commonlaw and all that. now he was living with just her fam since she died and they've been taking care of him. anyways after he was settled back home we went out to the casino's in greenville. at the first one the security chick at the door was like "you can't bring any cameras in here and aint no use puttin them in your bags since i've seen them already". she was just mad she had to stand outside in the heat. she also wanted to see my id so i knew i wasn't gettin in there. my aunt stayed at that casino and me and my mom took the cameras to the car and drove to this other casino where i snuck in and ended up winning 40 bucks. while my mother cashed out, i got some nickles stuck in another machine and an attendant came over to get them out, i could've sworn i was gonna get kicked out for being underage . we drive back to our hotel and take a nap then go by mamie's house [mamie= granpa's mistress's daughter] to check on grandpa again. they had him all cleaned up and stuff, he looked better. we sat outside on the porch and mamie's husband starts talking about fashion and other shit i didn't pay attention to, i think he was hitting on my mother but he aint got no teeth and he has the same clothes he had on 2 days ago and he just look nasty and he's MARRIED . on saturday there was a cookout at aunt minnie's and all of aunt minnie's kids and grandkids and greatgrands where there along with some other cousins. so we went over there and ate and tried to remember everyone's names and talked and laughed til the sun started to dip down. then aunt joan jumped up cuz she doesnt like driving in the dark and it was NOWHERE near dark but we went back to the hotel anyway. the adventure continues...

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