#120
Funny? Yes.
Weird? Yes
Disturbing? Yes
Was Harry actually for real in the vanities he posted. Hard to tell if he wasn't just playing us all.
I'm going back to read some his posting history.
BTW Cagey, thanks for the link. I couldn't for the life of me remember his FR handle.
“I don’t care if you get yourself killed...”
Years ago I had an uncle, old man who lived in his little apartment by himself, no family, no friends, no life. I never really knew him so I don’t know why he was so alone. He was a very quiet and boring kind of guy (boring in my young eyes anyway). The only time I ever saw him was around Christmas, and he always gave me a bit of money (and all of us kids). Like I said though, I didn’t know a thing about him.
Some years later I received a letter from him. It was quite boring. He told me, in a rather boring format, about his life in the services, and his factory career after that.
We wrote back and forth a handful of times. I was a young person on my own at that point, so responding to his letters wasn’t a high priority for me.
One day I got a call. He had committed suicide - drowned himself in Lake Michigan. I recalled that I hadn’t gotten around to answering his last letter. I found it up there in the letter rack and read it. Same old boring conversation of his past.
It had been sitting there for six months. I never got around to answering it.
I feel bad about that to this day.
I had not heard of the Other Harry until I saw him mentioned on another thread about Frito feet.
Now I’ve read some of his posts and yes, they come off as a bit abnormal, but he sounds human, like my uncle. Maybe not perfect, but human, (and for some reason that I don’t understand, I’m getting choked up and teary eyed).
I don’t know why I’m posting to you, but there you are.
Maybe if I had gotten to know my uncle, maybe he wouldn’t have been so “boring”. And dead. Maybe that’s why I’m feeling this way?