Other Family Times

When I told a fellow lawyer friend of mine that I was going to South Carolina for a family reunion – in a car — this friend, a Harvard/Yale lawyer who stays true to his Bed-Stuy roots, laughed and congratulated me for being his one black friend and to save some chitlins’ for him (for the record — I don’t eat chitlins’).  It wasn’t offensive – I knew exactly where he was coming from…in our profession, we don’t get many opportunities to regale our peers of stories of the electric/cha-cha slide, eating fish and crabs in the backyard, playing dominoes/spades/backgammon with cousins…etc.

However, I am not sure if it just the black family that does this.  Now that I am in Greece with my “alternate” family, my days have been spent (when not working), watching Thomas play dominoes and backgammon (he’s losing and talking a lot of s#it), eating fried fish every night and sucking the heads (because, it’s the tastiest part — sound familiar Kay?), and drinking various types of homemade ouzo — which is the Greek moonshine.  Maybe the similarities are why I love coming here so much…Pics to come.

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~ by nikkijoy on July 11, 2008.