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Things said and things not said
By Hilary Preece of Tranquility
It was about four weeks before. I can't remember exactly, but no more than four weeks before. Dave was on the toilet. He was reading. He read in bed in the morning, then on the toilet, and then in the bath. It was I who said it. "you'll die on that toilet" I said. Dave always said "be careful what you wish for" because he believed that sort of thing came true. It wasn't a wish. I thought that, "It wasn't a wish'. It was more a statement of fact. "Where did that come from?" I thought. What a strange thing to say. I don't usually say the first thing that comes into my head, but it popped into my head and I said it. We were walking back from the supermarket. This was about tree weeks before. Quite out of the blue Dave said "God will be really pleased to see me when he sees me coming. When he sees me coming he will have a smile all over his face, he'll be so happy to see me, and I'll be smiling too." Where did that come from? We weren't talking about anything, it just came out. What was I suposed to say? Shortly afterwards, in about the same spot, Dave said, "The trouble is, if we got married you'd want a pre-nuptual, wouldn't you?". Which part of that thought was I suposed to respond to? What I actually thought was, "Do you realise that if you dropped dead tomorrow your son would walk in and demand everything thats yours and I wouldn't even be left with something to remind me of you." why didn't I say it? Why didn't we both go home and write wills, then things might have been very different. It was a couple of weeks latter I found him on the bathroom floor. He wasn't dead. He'd had an annurisum. The medic put the toilet seat down when I looked at it. He'd been on the toilet. He didn't die there. He died ten days latter in hospital. His son came over. He hadn't seen his Dad for nearly two years. Practically the first thing he said was, "you knew my dad for two and a half years. He was my Dad all my life. Don't expect to get anything." He took everything. It hadn't occured to me that the ashes wouldn't stay here in France, scattered by Dave's lake, but they were taken back to Scotland. He took the dirty washing. He didn't want to take the clothes at all, but I said if he was taking everything he had to take everything. He promised he would leave me the masters of the CDs Dave made for me. He didn't. I was left with nothing but memories, but that's good enough for me. I cann't expain any of this, but it's all true. |
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This intel was contributed by Hilary
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