Ok. So I’ve been gone for a week or so on vacation in HHI; my favorite place in the world. If you know me, you’ve heard me talk about it relentlessly; and with reason, it is a wonderful place and wonderful stories come from visiting there. Here is one of at least two posts.

It all starts at the pool. My dad was sitting around the pool that sits in the middle of our tiny little neighborhood known as Huntington. There’s a decent amount of families that visit with kids, so naturally the pool can get populated with some chilluns’. Well, a little girl who was too young to swim was walking by the edge of the pool while my dad was sitting around reading, and she fell in. My dad noticed this, and looked around to see that no one had even noticed this. So he walked over to the edge of the pool and pulled the little girl out; then he walked back to his book and started reading again.

From that point on we started calling my dad the “Hero of Huntington”. I’m rather fond of alliteration…and being able to say Huntington whenever possible since it warms my soul. We utilized the new nick name as much as possible and even started singing the Indiana Jones theme song (since my dad tends to wear a fedora also…when he feels like saving kids). It was great.

Later that night, the big group of cousins and friends were meeting up at the pool for a late night swim. One of my cousins is walking into the vicinity and she has her towel wrapped around her shoulders and one of our crew makes the joke that she has a cape on. I decide to run with the “Hero of Huntington” joke a bit more by saying:

“The Heroine of Huntington is here!”

My cousin looks at me a little strangely and I notice that everyone else kinda went quiet for a second. That’s when I realized that:

1. She hadn’t heard the story of my dad saving the kid earlier…

2. She hadn’t heard his new nickname…

and the kicker

3. She’s a recovering Heroin addict.

yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…..

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