Saturday, February 7, 2009

The Blind Leading The Blind

One summer, we were visiting Missouri, where Jerry's folks lived most of the time when they weren't somewhere else. They are both from southwest Missouri, near Springfield and the Swertfeger family farm is there. We would load up the kids every other year and drive them across country to see my family in Illinois and Jerry's in Missouri. We'd been there many times, and Jerry knew his way to all his relatives homes because he had visited them his entire life.
On this visit particular visit, we had his parents loaded into the van and were driving out to his Uncle Albert's home on Table Rock Lake in Eagle Rock. Lee, who was so blind he could not drive anymore or see much of anything was telling Jerry where to go and how to turn, Esther was also helping Jerry find his way. We were on the dirt roads leading up to Albert's home area and Lee had been saying, "Turn left." So as we approach the turn Esther says, "Turn left." Jerry does it obediently knowing that it is the wrong way, figuring that it was the only way to let them see they were wrong and take care of the situation. Immediately after it was realized we were going the wrong way Lee asks in a loud, condescending voice, "You turned left!?".

2 comments:

Trac said...
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Trac said...

he he, that's funny.