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- W824765513 abstract "Dad had turned to stone. It happened on the weekend so we didn’t notice for a couple of days. He always sat there very still like that while the football games were on. Mom would sneak in regularly and replace the half-empty cans of warm flat beer with fresh cold ones... A Chip Off the Old . . . Stone? by Tony Seegers, Electrical Engineering Senior Dad had turned to stone. It happened on the weekend so we didn't notice for a couple of days. He always sat there very still like that while the football games were on. Mom would sneak in regularly and replace the half-empty cans of warm flat beer with fresh cold ones. Sometimes she would slip in a bologna sandwich, too. Mom was the one who finally noticed. She told the doctor that she became suspicious on Sunday afternoon when the beers started coming back full and again on Monday morning when he didn't go to work. He remained slouched in his artifact of a partially overstuffed chair, part of the stuffing had fallen out a long time ago. He still wore his dirty t-shirt with matching torn trousers and his feet were still stuck into a pair of formerly white socks and balanced up on our old wobbily coffee table. She finally realized that something was wrong when Monday Night Football came on with Howard and Dandy Don announcing. Dad hates Howard Cosell. He always turned down the sound during the game on Monday night. He even had one of those foam rubber bricks to heave at the TV screen whenever anything undesirable, such as Howie, appeared. When Cosell's voice came on for the halftime highlights, Mom knew that something was wrong. The doctor checked Dad over carefully and announced that Dad had indeed become a statue of colored sandstone. He suggested that we be more careful around him since someone had already knocked a chip off of his left cheek. As the doctor packed his surgical steel geologist's hammer and mason's trowel (he fixed the chip) into his bag, he assured us that Dad was probably just going through a phase and that he" @default.
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