Over the many years I've been acquainted with Granddad I have yet to have had the misfortune of witnessing the old bastard consuming any form of solid sustenance with his ever eroding sporadic set of gnashers - in fact, I think he's only got one, and that looks like it belongs in a fucking museum. But I have of course been present in the form of an admiring spectator as he eases his way through bottle upon bottle of the strongest alcohol known to humanity and still manages to capture, quite remarkably, the status of a relatively operative member of the human race.
Twas only yesterday morning during a visit to my local purveyor of everything from shotgun shells to freshly slain serpents, that I happened upon Granddad engaged in what appeared to be a robust session of banter with a harem of coarsely clad female farmhands preparing for a day of traipsing in among the corn fields whilst sipping intermittently at their day's quotient of lao. The man obviously still has moves, and the desire to indulge in pleasures of the flesh evidently still remains after he reached into the depths of his physiological being and gave one of the female farming contingent a feeble slap on the backside as she made to leave the establishment.
But yesterday evensong, just as I was nestling into my usual seat at the local shop, which has since been dubbed 'gao-wee VIP', and preparing to launch with lust into the next chapter of my book (Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis - worthy) Granddad lurched into the venue, liberated a 10 baht bag of Pad Pet Pla Lai (spicy eel curry), with the diligence of a seasoned elastic bandsman opened the polythene sachet and started cramming fistfuls of the aforementioned fare into his mouth with his bare hands.
By this point I became extremely hesitant with regards to opening my recently purchased packet of Lays Originals through fear of violently introducing them to the fruit and vegetable display, and the award winning gulp I'd just imbibed stirred angrily in the pit of my stomach.
Really, Granddad! A smidgen of table etiquette must've surely been acquired at some point during your 189 years of existence. But saying that, I immediately began to reminisce about the way in which, as a youth, I had eaten doner kebabs with all the decorum of a salivating mongrel - so for this, although watching Granddad guzzling at his curry had made me feel somewhat nauseous, I was able to empathize with his appetite to a certain extent.
But upon the conclusion of this hearty repast, and after utilizing his omnipresent sarong as a fucking serviette, Granddad, in all is wizened glory, squatted at literally an arms length from where I sat inwardly grimacing, and took a fucking piss. Right there in the shop. And much to my dismay, the trajectory of the flow of his urine was headed like a white water bastard river in my direction.
I quickly relocated to another seat, and needless to say I quickly upgraded the status of Granddad to that of the best person in the world, ever...
Here he sits. With wizened intent...