Funny Relative

I reckon everybody has a funny relative. Sometimes they are as funny to others as they are to themselves and sometimes not. One old uncle of Dorothy's spent a lot of times telling little stories and making jokes. Some people fell out laughing, other moved away as fast as they could. I watched as he had a young couple stuck in a corner telling his tales.

He said, "I come from a real big family. I have nine brothers and each one of them brothers has nine brothers."

The young woman asked, "Does that make eighty-one of y'all?"

"You'll have to do the math," said uncle. "I have long since quit trying to figure it out."

The young man grabbed his wife's arm and pulled her away from the jokester. "I'll explain later, but we promised Aunt Julia to take a picture with her."

"Is Julia still taking pictures? She came over for a visit last year and when she left our walls were bare."

At that the young man practically shoved his wife into the hall and out into the courtyard.

Tales of Harper, short stories and poems about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle