This is a photo of my dad taken several years ago:
He passed away in August of 2002 but he keeps showing up from time to time in the strangest places. A few years back we were sorting stuff to be thrown away and I randomly picked up an old issue of Better Homes and Gardens and started leafing through it. I about flipped out when I ran across this article:
I'll zoom in some so you can see the guy seated at the table with the green and white shirt.
Dad wore glasses just like those most of the time, wore that style of shirt just about all the time and sat with the same posture as the guy in the photo.
Then this afternoon we were watching a football game and my wife, Kathy, suddenly jumps up, grabs the remote, and says "I just saw your dad in the stands." (Thank goodness for DVRs). She backed it up a few seconds, started it again, then paused it and sure enough...
I took this picture with my phone, directly from the TV screen. I tried to get closer and / or crop the picture but the quality's not too good. I don't know why I didn't think to try a regular camera at the time but it's hard to get a good picture off a TV screen anyway so it probably wouldn't have made a lot of difference.
I just don't know about Dad wearing Carolina Blue and I really doubt he would have gone to a UNC game on a day when West Virginia was playing, I mean it was a road trip either way, right? And since West Virginia is "almost heaven" (according to John Denver, etal.) it would have been closer...I just don't know why he was there. What? West Virginia plays tomorrow? Well, then, maybe it was him.
Either way I kept looking at the picture on my phone and kinda smiling to myself the rest of the day.
(I think maybe that baby blue shirt makes him look as though he's gained a few pounds but don't say anything.)
He passed away in August of 2002 but he keeps showing up from time to time in the strangest places. A few years back we were sorting stuff to be thrown away and I randomly picked up an old issue of Better Homes and Gardens and started leafing through it. I about flipped out when I ran across this article:
I'll zoom in some so you can see the guy seated at the table with the green and white shirt.
Dad wore glasses just like those most of the time, wore that style of shirt just about all the time and sat with the same posture as the guy in the photo.
Then this afternoon we were watching a football game and my wife, Kathy, suddenly jumps up, grabs the remote, and says "I just saw your dad in the stands." (Thank goodness for DVRs). She backed it up a few seconds, started it again, then paused it and sure enough...
I just don't know about Dad wearing Carolina Blue and I really doubt he would have gone to a UNC game on a day when West Virginia was playing, I mean it was a road trip either way, right? And since West Virginia is "almost heaven" (according to John Denver, etal.) it would have been closer...I just don't know why he was there. What? West Virginia plays tomorrow? Well, then, maybe it was him.
Either way I kept looking at the picture on my phone and kinda smiling to myself the rest of the day.
(I think maybe that baby blue shirt makes him look as though he's gained a few pounds but don't say anything.)
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