October 1, 2000 – Grandma D’s House for Dinner and a Phone Call

October 1, 2000 – Grandma D’s House for Dinner and a Phone Call

This was another weird night. Rob and I went to Grandma and Grandpa D’s house for dinner along with an old companion of Rob’s, Elder Bird. I don’t know his first name. But he was married or engaged, and his significant other was there, too. Anyways, the phone call was awkward. I was trying to be supportive of Rob, but I didn’t know him still quite that well and felt I was in the way. Besides, I don’t know German and the whole phone call was in German. I just knew that an old investigator was now having trouble. I also knew that this old investigator was half in love with Rob. Weird. So the phone call was weird and I half (well, maybe even more than half) wished I hadn’t been there for that part.

The other part about that night that was funny was Grandma D’s reaction to me. I wore my normal-for-the-time attire over to her house. I wore baggy pants and an old ratty sweatshirt (I loved those clothes and wore them well after they should have been thrown away), along with my Sambas covered in paint from my job at the golf course. A few days later it was reported to Rob’s mom that I wore combat boots over to Grandma D's house. This is still a running joke and my Dad likes to tease me about it. Not that I wouldn’t wear combat boots if I owned them, cause I would. But I didn’t own them.

Rob’s family was a little funny to me. They talked about everything, even about what the girl Rob was dating was wearing. By this point I think I had probably already talked to C, Rob's oldest sister. Rob one day said, “My sister wants to call you.” Why, I asked. “Just cause she wants to.” That’s weird. We weren’t engaged or anything. I remember it being weird that C called me, but she was pleasant enough to talk to. I remember telling her that it was obvious that Rob wanted to get married. She was like, “You think?!” I told Rob afterward that it seemed most people thought we were going to get married. Not that I objected to that, but it was so early in our relationship.

written Spring 2006