5 Facts About Me (Count Down)

Klein Vrydag! Happy Wednesday

It is almost the end of the week, the days are flying by and we are so close to Christmas!

I hope that today, you had a good laugh with someone, if not I hope this fact will.

Let's dive in with the fact of the day

3. In Primary School, I chipped my tooth - Here is the back story

I must have been in Grade 5 or 6 when I was playing in the yard with my cousins... but before I get to the main event let me set the scene.

My cousins (that were around the same age group) and I would walk to our grandparent's house after school.

Our grandfather didn't allow us to play out in the streets so the yard was the next best thing.

We would play every game under the sun to entertain ourselves. We would go from on-on to 3 sticks, Red Letter, Simon Says, hide and seek, blindemol the list goes on.

On this particular day, we were playing next to the house that was laid with cement. I can't remember which game we were playing I'm guessing On-On.

I am also assuming I was on/it and I was trying to tag one of my cousins or I was trying to run away from one of them.

The next thing I know I'm on the ground, I GOT TRIPPED.

Once I got up looked at my cousins, all 3 of them looked at me like they saw a ghost

"Jou tant is gechip!" the one shouts, I put my finger to my lips and I lose it.

A fight nearly breaks out between us, I can't remember if any hits were given but my grandfather intervened. All at once, we attempt to explain what happened at this points its girls against boys.

My grandfather wasn't having any of it, he split us up and place my cousin(my defender that shouted "it's not right Papa") and I in the last room of the house.

When you are placed in a waiting room in our grandparent's house - you know it's about to go down.

We were fuming, she was fuming. I was feeding off her energy realizing that the boys were getting off scot-free.

Pacing up and down in the smallest room in the house, we made our frustration known. Our grandfather came into the room and told us to let it go, cool off, and be quiet.

Do you think we listened?

Nope, we didn't.

Guess what happened then, yup we got a good old hiding. I chipped my tooth AND got a hiding on the same day, merely a few minutes apart with my cousin tagged in.

The next day I had to go to school with my chipped tooth, matching the guy in my grade, never mind grade. WE WERE IN THE SAME CLASS! TWINNING!!

Today my grandfather would have been 89, as crazy as this memory might seem to people. The many things that can be said about this story one thing I know for sure.

My grandfather may have been strict and set in his ways but he was one of a kind, in his own lane.

Many times we(as kids) didn't understand him but the older you get the more you learn.

He taught us, disciplined us, and disciplined us and those are memories we will never forget.