Growing up was pretty
stressful, well stressful for people living with me. I have however improved to
a great degree in the past 3 decades. I don’t know what elicited these quirks
but had it not been for them I would had nothing to write about. I was
thoroughly spoiled as a kid, that’s what my sisters tell me and looking back I
think, I did get whatever I wanted, well almost.
We had two Au pairs and a
maid, and they did spoil me, I got my favorite food every day, right down to
specifics, 3 drops of gravy, on rice not 4, not 2…but 3; weird huh? I still
can’t believe that they complied with my unusual requests.
I did have a lot of quirks;
I have out grown most of them over time. One that made absolutely no sense and
is still baffling till today was my belief that I would become an old man if my
maid touched my clothes.
Ok, I’ll give you a moment
to read that again and another minute more to absorb what I just wrote. I was 4 years
old and whenever my maid touched my clothes, I would get upset and say “you made
me an old man” I do not know for how long this quirkiness lasted but let’s just
say only my mum and my Au pairs could dress me.
As I grew older, I out grew
this odd behavior developed new ones. Now let me just say that some of them
were actually a blessing for my mum. From the age of 7 to 15 I never let anyone
wash or iron my clothes. My shirts had to be ironed correctly; every seam had
to be in place... I did spend a lot of time ironing clothes.
I grew older I developed
some other quirks but let’s leave that for another post.
