Want to see something weird?
Go here and check out the guy in the middle. That’s my brother-in-law (Brett’s little brother).
I don’t know him at all. Technically I met him before I met Brett because I briefly dated one of his friends. He used to play pool at the bar (where I later met Brett) and he had long hair that drove the girls crazy. My roommate thought he was dreamy because of that long curly hair (this was the grunge era, you know). Me, I never liked long hair on men, which is why I zeroed in on his pal.
He was good looking then (you can see he’s still good looking) and being the sort of angry feminist that I was, I rolled my eyes at his legions of girlfriends and never thought much of him. I believe we grunted at each other when Ed (boyfriend) and I were leaving the house they shared.
So then it was odd to meet Brett and realize that he was Todd’s older brother.
“You mean pool playing Todd?” I said in amazement. Hmph. Small world.
Pretty much from the time I started dating Brett Todd has been elsewhere. He was in NYC for a really long time and just recently moved out to LA. Like I said, I don’t know him. He’s very very very close-mouthed (at least around family) and he’s constantly surprising us. Like the site says, he was in Eastern Europe for awhile because he realized, post-Glasnost, that the poor people of Eastern Europe were stuck driving cars covered in primer. (He’s always been car-crazy.) So he flew over to Czechoslovakia and started a business painting cars. His mom only found out he was over there when she happened to turn on NPR and heard an interview with him.
He seems like a nice guy and the kids like him. He’s the kind of weird uncle who jets in last minute for holidays and then gives them ridiculous gifts. I think that’s a good sort of uncle to have.
And he’s still dating beautiful women only now I don’t hold it against him.
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