Grasshopper27
Banned
HEY!
by Lynelle Dawson
I remember hearing them throughout my childhood.
"Hey," my step-dad would say out of the blue.
"Hey what?" my mom would automatically reply.
I had noticed nothing more was generally said, but then I was young and didn't pay too much attention to the "old fogies."
Years passed by uneventfully, I was now in my twenties and still I would hear their apparently meaningless conversation.
"Hey."
"Hey what?"
For over 25 years I heard this exchange, never knowing what it meant.
Quite truthfully, I never knew it was supposed to be anything other than a greeting of some odd sort. I didn't hear it frequently, only occasionally, therefore I didn't really spend a lot of time dwelling on the custom either.
Around the ripe old age of 35, which was quite a bit older than one of the "old fogies" of my childhood, and barely a decade younger than the other, I learned what the expressions were meant to convey.
Saying, "Hey," meant, "I love you."
Replying, "Hey what?" meant, "I love you too."
For 27 years now, this has been their secret way of expressing the depth of their love for one another without anyone being the wiser.
Hey!
by Lynelle Dawson
I remember hearing them throughout my childhood.
"Hey," my step-dad would say out of the blue.
"Hey what?" my mom would automatically reply.
I had noticed nothing more was generally said, but then I was young and didn't pay too much attention to the "old fogies."
Years passed by uneventfully, I was now in my twenties and still I would hear their apparently meaningless conversation.
"Hey."
"Hey what?"
For over 25 years I heard this exchange, never knowing what it meant.
Quite truthfully, I never knew it was supposed to be anything other than a greeting of some odd sort. I didn't hear it frequently, only occasionally, therefore I didn't really spend a lot of time dwelling on the custom either.
Around the ripe old age of 35, which was quite a bit older than one of the "old fogies" of my childhood, and barely a decade younger than the other, I learned what the expressions were meant to convey.
Saying, "Hey," meant, "I love you."
Replying, "Hey what?" meant, "I love you too."
For 27 years now, this has been their secret way of expressing the depth of their love for one another without anyone being the wiser.
Hey!
