Uncle Rudy story
Jul. 31st, 2009 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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markgritter's family is Dutch-American, and Uncle Rudy was from a part of Michigan with a lot of Hollanders (though he was himself the son of Czech immigrants).
Mark and I had gotten engaged, and Uncle Rudy came up to me at the next family gathering with a sly grin. "I know why you're marrying this boy," he said. "Oh yah? Why's that?" I said. "Every summer you'd hear us come in from outside and say, 'whew, it's hotter than Dutch love out there,'" he said, "and you, you just had to find out."
markgritter's family is Dutch-American, and Uncle Rudy was from a part of Michigan with a lot of Hollanders (though he was himself the son of Czech immigrants).Mark and I had gotten engaged, and Uncle Rudy came up to me at the next family gathering with a sly grin. "I know why you're marrying this boy," he said. "Oh yah? Why's that?" I said. "Every summer you'd hear us come in from outside and say, 'whew, it's hotter than Dutch love out there,'" he said, "and you, you just had to find out."
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Date: 2009-07-31 04:51 pm (UTC)In fact, your entire family seems to be made of sheer awesomeness.
Also, I've had a Dutch lover (long distance, he lived in Amsterdam) and....yeah. wink
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Date: 2009-07-31 05:12 pm (UTC)(Thinking of you and your family. More, off-LJ, after I've gotten more sleep.)
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Date: 2009-07-31 05:56 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2009-07-31 06:01 pm (UTC)(I would have thought "Dutch love" was something like "going Dutch", but thinking in terms of precisely what one would be paying for gets into a slippery slope fairly fast.)
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Date: 2009-07-31 06:29 pm (UTC)I think I would have keeled over if any of my relatives had said something like that to me.
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Date: 2009-07-31 06:42 pm (UTC)I think I have a staid and dignified relative around here somewhere, but we don't see her much, and she'd deny the allegation if she knew I meant her.