Twirling Cards
I was over at mydad's house visting him and his wife. I have always been curiousabout my dad's past so I asked him about my grandfather. All Iknew about him was that he died before I was even born, so Inever knew him. When I asked my dad about him I learned a lot buta couple things stood out. He died almost axactly a year beforemy mom found out she was pregnant with me. He loved to spinthings. Kinda weird but, he would sit in his chair and spin hiswallet on his finger. Just spin anything he could find and pickup. And also, his favorite color was lime green. Now that's whatreally scared me because that's my favorite color and has beensince I can remember. Not one other person that I know in myfamily had told me that either. After all, lime green isn't themost popular color.
All coincidence I guess but that night I woke up from a deepsleep to the sound of my father's voice. our walls are paper thinso I heard him talking in his room. I was guessing he was talkingto my step mom so i just rolled over and closed my eyes. But,then I heard him saying something like, "dad, can you pleasewatch over her please. She wants to know about you and I alwaysthought that you two had so much in common. It's just a shame shecouldn't meet you because I know you two would hit if off great"
At this time I about peed my pants and fell asleep thinking mydad was one crazy guy. But, again I woke up close to dawn. Forsome reason my attention was directed to these birthday cardsthat had been sitting on my dresser. One at a time down the row,the cards started spinning. then when they all stopped and felldown, they were put upright again.
Now I don't know if I was still gorggy from sleeping or even if Iwas still sleeping but it wasn't scary at all. I felt like I hada gaurdian and I was now close to a grandfather that I had nevermet. That feeling still comes up every now and then but nothinglike spinning cards. Thanx for reading.