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HOLDING COURT
The first occurrence is usually when the children are small, either his own offspring or his nephews and nieces. A small child will ask an innocent question such as “Where do Zebras come from?” Then it begins, The Darwinian theory from start to finish followed by a mangled version of ‘How the leopard got his spots’; some forty minutes later the poor child, having lost their appetite for dessert asks to leave the table and slides off their chair mumbling “ I only wanted to know if it was Africa or India.”
Your man will sit there with a satisfied glow on his face, The Educator and Protector of the young has established his position as King of the Court.
The children learn soon enough to ask questions in a more direct manner or not at all, they tread their careful way past the lectures until they reach their teenage years. They now have the upper hand with their jargon and fashion, music and technical toys that your man finds disturbing and confusing. Not to be ignored he will regale the young adults with tales that begin “In our day” or “When I was your age” followed by an
exaggerated version of some youthful misdemeanour, daring-do, or high adventure.
I once heard a chap (desperately trying to hold his own during a discussion on gap year travel plans with his younger audience) say, “Speaking as someone who has travelled the world….” Only to be cut off by his wife, “Really Darling? Have you been to Peru?”
“Well no..”
“Brunei ?”
“Er… no…but…”
“Haifa?”
“Er…”
“Colorado Springs? Addis Ababa? Odessa?”
“NO…but as I was saying…”
“Bangalore?”
The teenagers slid upstairs not bothering to hide their mirth and the frustrated King took solace in his glass of whisky. Court adjourned!
So the years progress and whenever the occasion presents, at family gatherings, office parties, reunion dinners, funerals, weddings, christenings, Christmas, Easter and summer barbecues he can be found
(usually towards the end of the event), surrounded by a bevy of women (and perhaps one or two men who couldn’t be bothered to move off to another room) all laughing in the right places and giving appropriate appreciative noises to acknowledge courage or brazen cheek in the face of adversity.
Why are the women listening, or feigning interest? Is it because, as he thinks, they find him riveting, attractive, witty, unusual, and maybe even fascinating? Or is it, as we ladies know, a fact that most women are too polite and sensitive to male egos? We can’t face that look on their faces when they find themselves alone with no-one to recount to. They look so pitifully distraught, like abandoned Labrador puppies.
We just can’t do that to them and so we allow them to Hold Court like the Kings they think they are.
This is insight into world behaviour!
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