During one of dad's last visits to UCSF, Becky, Kimmie, Candy and I were in his room with him, and he declared that he needed a board. We said, 'huh'? A board? For what? He said, "just listen".
And then very slowly but very seriously he said, "I need a board, about this big by this big" as he used his hands to describe a board about as big as your lap. "It needs to have a hole, right about here" as he draws with his finger a little hole in the upper right hand corner of the board a bit bigger than a quarter. Then he pauses, a bit too long, and we swear he either fell asleep or can't remember what he was about to say, then starts in again with "then, when somebody comes in, I can put my hand here, just like this" and with his left hand, he slowly bends the fingers of his right hand into his palm except for the middle one, which he leaves sticking straight up. He lays his hand down on the board, and says, "There. Just like that" and grins at us as if he just thought up the most ingenious thing ever.
We cracked up at the bizarre ending to the story and we're still not sure to this day whether he was trying to distract us with the 'I need a board' start, or if he was just really loopy and to his muddled mind this made all the sense in the world! Either way it was hilarious, and now anytime one of us makes a smart ass remark, all we have to say is, "I need a board" and we all start laughing again!
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