Re-Write: TW3

1/5/23  TWTWTW—Old TV Actual Re-visit

Ever hear that old saying kids used to say when walking on concrete sidewalks? “Step on a crack, you break your mother’s back!” Well, a recent week must have had a lot of crack-stepping! Not that it actually broke anyone’s back, but it did interfere with normalcy. The recent week occurring Dec.22 to about Dec.30, 2022 fits an historical title today: That Was The Week That Was The old satirical tv program by that name (1962-63) poked fun at all the world’s news, be it funny or calamitous, serious or ridiculous. We had one of those weeks in the above dates. (“We” being members of my family.)

>>On Dec.22, one of my family started to drive here from upstate NY for the holidays and only got about 85 miles from home when his car broke down. His companion’s family came to the rescue, got a vehicle to them and they made—just a day later than desired. 

>>One grandson flew from San Antonio, TX on the flibberty-jibbit airline who didn’t know how to handle their crowd. He got here ok, but when he tried to get his boarding pass to go home on the 27th, everything had been cancelled and no flights were available. His mother and I had conversations about how to get him home (to work) and it was difficult to figure a way to get him into a rental car that wasn’t going to be very expensive. (Back to this problem in a moment.)

>>My son-in-law had left on the 25th by flight to go to Austin, TX; there to wait for his son to fly down from Dallas to meet him and drive together to New Braunfels. The son in Dallas had his flights cancelled, so his father got a rental car and drove 200 miles North to pick him up, turn around and drive 250 miles South to share holiday festivities with the rest of his families.

>>Now back to the grandson in need of getting back to San Antonio: my daughter decided she would drive him back, 14hours down/14 hours back. So, she checked with her husband (the one with the rental car in New Braunfels) to see what his status was and surely as you could expect, his flight home was cancelled. 

>>So, my daughter drove her son to San Antonio airport to get his car; then to New Braunfels to her rental car bound husband and his son. They then took his rental car back to Austin, then drove his son back to Dallas to catch a plane to his home in Arizona.

>>Then they two drove the 11 hours back home.

>>Here at home on the day following, my oldest son was going to borrow our car for a short trip and while driving to our house to swap cars for the day, his car went caput! Threw a rod, busted a head gasket or cracked head—it is rendered useless for a while. Then, on the day following, this son became ill enough that he wasn’t able to either help his wife in her busiest days nor do anything about the car issue. 

Everyone lived through this, even if it had its moments!

It may be difficult for all of us to forget this particular holiday season because it reached out at us all like TWTWTW! A week filled with disparagement and mockery! 

However, this week’s been terrific!

Thanks for reading, the Elder