And how can anyone forget that daytime classic: Queen for a Day.... Couldn't you see Elizabeth appearing on it? "I thought I murdered my husband and had him buried in the cellar for the past 18 years and never left the house, only to find it wasn't true, while my brother and his emotionally disturbed son moved in and my sister-in-law who's a supernatural creature tried to fry my nephew and then an ancestor returned from the dead turning everyone into a blood bank." She'd STILL lose to Mrs. Macfarlan from Des Moines who missed going to her weekly girls' bridge party when the clutch on her car burned out.
Har! har! wasn't that on 'Springer' tuesday?
My grandmother used to sit and watch QfaD and just cry and cry! One day when I was about 12 or so I was watching with her, and I began to run down what her story on there would be ~ my mom's side of the family had their own little 'stomach-turning' soap opera going, with the evil of money being the unsympathetic villian.... wow, that got me thinking about all the characters in 'The Miller's Tales' [mom's maiden name] ~ and it probably surprizes no one there is some insanity in my family
~ there were some wild characters, like the real Jimmy Dean [yes, the sausage dude] dating my aunt, giving her a yellow T-bird, and then trying to take it back, quite dramatically ala toughguy repo-man, because she was also dating the brother of Tenn. Erine [16 Tons] Ford- she ended up being the head of the local better business b., knowing everybodys business, and talking way too much .... one uncle ran a local hotel, and there were gambling and political scandals, another uncle had 3 wives [not at once, tho] and my grandmother loved them all, and would 'accidentally' have sometimes all three in the house at once - that was verrrry interesting!!!
~ also some heartless greedy folks - years later, in a family of 5, my mom ended up singularly taking care of an nearly invalid father and her grandmother after her mom died, and when they all 'left', they left a very small quantity of cash that suddenly the other siblings appeared to contest the wills and court cases and ... etc, etc, ...so convoluted and stupid! One 'scene', while my mom was visiting me at school, had my 70 something grandfather 'walking' [with a walker] about 3 miles to where a son worked to ask to 'borrow' cigarette money and he got screamed at by MY UNCLE for embarassing him at his 'big shot' USED CAR LOT!! We had someone working at the car lot tell us about that, so mom went to her sister [at the BBB, remember?] and tried to get his business closed, but then the brother and sister got together, forged my mom's name on some bank documents, and made it look like mom was ripping off my grandfather!
Sheesh! and all true! stranger than fiction ~ My sister still has a piano the Jimmy Dean bought for my Aunt!
.... hey, my hour is just about up, see ya next therapy session! Is this a new couch?
