If I often used to tell of the adventures of young ladies here, loving the zeitgeist or the appearance of a cocked hat, my, there are some men who keep a place in my heart.
Wind décoiffe me to sniff the winds of my youth, those who lead me to remember my Mommy.
Mommy was my adoptive mother, a unique and have already recounted his adventure in my ropes, of his destiny to raise your servant, giving me all her love to the end of his life. (See Oh, Mommy! )
His template grip, and his chest as hard as armor, not prevented from making friends with lovers, at least that's what she said. But I've known him a friend of many years of my life with her, who wore a cocked hat, too. Was it a premonition, I do not know, but I remember his name, Gabriel.
Even if Mommy called him Grandpa, like that between them. As a grandfather.
He was sedentary for a sailor, and I remember it happening at the post office to collect a kind of retirement. And as he came three times a week to see Mommy, I sometimes accompanied him to his case. Limping, we must say that he stands wedged under his arm replaced the leg he had lost during a bout. For more than a sailor, he was a pirate and he was proud ...
I remember his smile when he told me stories and his eyes shone as if the image passing before his eyes. Yet the cinema did not exist at the time but it was a sacred imagination!
Between two stories and candlelight dinner with Mommy, I went with him to the tavern because he liked to play cards with his friends. Sitting on his lap, I loved those long games when wedged between his arms, he won the set as if he had just won the world. His thick fingers held small cards and sometimes he let me play in his place. Its index showed that I had to take and I did the rest.
One day, the party went wrong, and suddenly he knocked head of one who had cheated. I remember the jerk who smashed the front of his old friend. We never said no more but he made me swear not to talk, especially Mommy, I kept my promise and to this day.
Grandpa taught me many things, and especially never to boast. "Because then you'll be stuck and you will not surprise anyone." And especially not when thou shalt great, tell the girls that you are good in bed. Always say that you are not worth a nail. Because if you do the case, you can tell them that you had them preventable. Otherwise, it will be a pleasant surprise .... " Hand in my hair, he launched a big laugh, I still did not understand the things we were doing in bed, but I never forgotten ...
One day he took me on a real ship, a schooner, and he allowed me to take the helm under his wing, as if nothing could happen to me.
It happens from time to time to think about it, and I think my vocation as a sailor and pirate is it that I want.
I will never forget it.
A Grandpa, and all the grandparents in the world!
Jack Rackham
