I was watching the Orioles\/Pirates game on MASN.<\/p>\n
My grandmother opened the door to the basement.<\/p>\n
“What are we having for breakfast?” she called down.<\/p>\n
“Breakfast?” I said, confused. It was 7:30. At night. The Orioles pitcher had just given up a solo shot to the Pirates.<\/p>\n
“Breakfast,” she said. “Is it up or down?”<\/p>\n
“Up or down? What does that even mean?”<\/i><\/p>\n
“Breakfast!” she yelled. “I just got up! I need something to eat.”<\/p>\n
“I can fix dinner,” I said. “Breakfast is still about twelve hours away.”<\/p>\n
“It’s not dinner time. I just got up.”<\/p>\n
“From your nap<\/i>.”<\/p>\n
“I don’t take naps.”<\/p>\n
She slammed the door. I heard her stomp away, saying, “I’ll fix something myself.”<\/p>\n
I went up to the kitchen. I tried, again, to explain that it was 7:30. That it was dinner time, not breakfast time.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to have toast,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Okay,” I said.<\/p>\n
“You don’t know how hard it is. I can’t see.” This isn’t a new symptom. My grandmother has been claiming blindness in one eye or the other for months<\/i>. <\/p>\n
“You have glasses.”<\/p>\n
“I’m blind in one eye, and I’m blind in the other eye.”<\/p>\n
“Okay, then,” I said.<\/p>\n
Back to the ballgame. :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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