Marionettes

I suppose this is not really a kvetch but more a bit of anger for myself over an irrational fear.....Marionettes....I hate em. Can't stand the creepy eyes, they always have big noses and the way their arms are out in front of them and the lopy way they walk. They freak me out big time. When I was a kid, once a year someone would come to the grade school to bring us a marionette show. I sat in the back, as far away as I could just hoping that a a fire would start burning up the little wooden things so that I wouldn't have to watch their creepy eyes, as they shifted on to me. Yes, they did. One year, as a special treat, a relative ACTUALLY GOT ME A MARIONETTE FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!! I struggled to be polite, desperate to get away from the box and the creepazoid that was contained within it. Of course we had to take the offensive pile of wood and string out of the box and many in the room joyously played with the alien. I couldn't bare the thought of the monster in my house let alone my room. Suddenly a solution came to my mind.........I went into the garage and carefully arranged the possessed doll right behind the wheel of my dad's car. Sure enough, my dad ran it over the next morning as he pulled the car out of the garage. I'm sure he caught hell from my mom over this. I can imagine her yelling and my dad feeling horrible and them wondering how to break the news to me. Luckily, this was the 70s and the parenting mode was "less said sooner mended". No one said a word. I'm sure their guilt lasted for years, but my delight continues to this day.

While in Austria, we went up to a local castle (how cool to say that, local castle...almost as good as daily Kock, but that is for another blog - jeez, this may turn into less a kvetch and more a tale!). We had a beer before we decided to explore. We were happy with beer smiles on our faces and awed eyes as the castle was amazing....until........(DU DU DU DA!!!!!!!!!!! (suspense music))......a marionette museum.........ARGHHH!!!!!! I went in bravely (I had some high hopes as I thought we would need to pay to get in and one of our party is fond of saying "I'm not paying" but I was foiled as it was gratis).........and had to leave quickly when I found out they actually had a marionette that you could play with. Luckily we either stayed too drunk, or too tired for the rest of the travelers to come up with a good marionette prank. If they had, my lovely and delicious memories of austria could have been tainted. So, Austris is perfect -1.