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Haggis actually made me $10,000 once.

I had the opportunity to visit an old uncle on the occasion of his 93rd birthday. He suffered from some variation of hypertensive dementia and rarely talked or did most things.

My cousin is one of those really vegetarians and fixed us dinner. I nibble at some brown veggie gunk and look around and there's my uncle feeding himself. I say "Look he's feeding himself and it looks like he really likes the haggis". A few seconds we thought he was choking and all got up. He spit out his food and said "She told me it was chicken". And he starts laughing - just is belly shook and his eyes teared. Every time he looked at me he'd mumble "haggis" and start giggling.

Well I though little about it and about a year later he died from the second law of thermodynamics. I called my cousin and talked to her and she said his last word was "haggis" with a belly shake.

About a year later I get a cashier's check for $10,000 from his estate. So I called my cousin with "What's this all about?" She said that he laughed regularly his last year and he sau my name or haggis. She didn't understand the joke, but wanted to leave me this money.

Poor woman. She doesn't understand what haggis is, how bad her cooking is or the (mostly deserved) awful reputation haggis has.

Sometimes you say the right thing at the right time. I'm glad he had a laugh at his daughter's expense and that he found humor in his last days.