Remember the time Grandpa Uno took us all onto the roof of Uno's Pizzeria (the one in Providence) and he set up his telescope - which was so old it had a family of mice living inside of it - and we looked out into the stars and at the moon? When you (Andrew) were looking at the moon," he turned from us and his eyes started tearing up. (Later you told me you weren't looking at the moon at all, but rather some "attractive teenage girls" at WaterPlace Park - you were 13 at the time).
Anyway, recent posting about Grandpa's expedition as a cosmonaut finally identified the reason he may have been crying.
Then Grandpa told Ferguson that the moon was made of cheese (he always thought Ferg was kind of gullible) and so Ferguson took that moment to cut the cheese and we all started laughing ferociously. Then Phil made the comment about the sun being made of Gas, and so Grandpa Uno let one rip. Then we all almost died of laughter.
We went downstairs and Grandpa opened the Uno's and held a city-wide pizza eating contest? He gave us two hours to eat as many pies as we could. The winner was to receive a "mystery prize." (He told us later he just didn't have anything he really wanted to give away). Ferguson was in the lead with 8 pies (Ferg wasn't big but he could eat). I was up to 5 pies and you (Andrew) were up to three when my brother Phil (who had run off to see these so called "attractive teenagers" you had spotted in the telescope) arrived with twenty minutes left (dressed in sweatpants) and devoured fifteen and a half pizzas!! Grandpa was ecstatic, and told Phil he could make out with his niece from his first marriage, Jenny. Phil declined because he was in a relationship. Ferguson hoped to take the prize in his place (it would have been his first kiss) but Grandpa declined and gave him a chess set instead. Ferguson was devastated, and never really got over it.
RIP Ferguson.
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