False Idols

[Blogger's note, once again this is one that has been gathering dust for a couple of months]

Previously on The Trouble With Máirtín - Motherdearest came to Dublin to bring back the most of the books, suits and bulky items I have gathered in the last 8 years.

As we approached home, I broached the subject of She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.^–1 Often has she voiced her love of Eimhin, it being stronger than her feelings for her own father or mother. I asked Deirdre why this was the case. She figured it was because Eimhin brings her toys and gifts when he returns from far away lands. So she suggested that I bring her one of the pair of shoes that were bought for her in Dublin as an offering. I was all for smoothing over the weekend. It didn't seem of consequence at the time, but Diorraing had bought himself two pairs of sunglasses and Cárthach another pair.^–0.5

We arrived in Lisdoon, and I gave Molly her shoes, and she gushed over them and thanked me sweetly. Then she spotted Diorraing's glasses. He told her that he got them in Dublin. Molly said, rather accusingly,"Máirtín got me shoes in Dublin, why didn't he get me sunglasses as well?"⁰

Molly begged Diorraing to wear the sunglasses for a while, so he let her. Since "she got snot on 'em" he refused to give them to her again. Eager/desperate to get into her good graces, I chased Diorraing down and pried the sunglasses from his grasp. He took them off of her, and again I chased him down. This time we took it outside, where there was much wrestling and capering. In all the excitement, Molly forgot whose side she was on and starting kicking me and running away with her other brothers as I lay prone.

Inevitably, Molly broke the glasses by trying to snatch them off of Diorraing and put an end to this episode of our lives. [Fade to black]

[The lead-in: To make room for visiting cousins, I slept in Molly's bed, which goes unused.¹]

As closing credits roll underneath:

The next morning she came in to me. Asked me what I was doing in [Directed by] her room. I told her that she never slept here. She repeated [Written by] herself and added that the bed was too small for me [Key grip], that I was too big and it was perfect for her [Cinematography]. She even went as far as to suggest that I sleep in Eimhin's [Best boy] bed.

–I flashbacked to a morning a year back, where she [Continuity] woke me and disapprovingly asked Deirdre,"Why Máirtín was sleeping [Filmed on location] in Eimhin's room?"–

While she stalked out of her pink, pink room, she made the universal gesture for I-Have-My-Eyes-On-You²; and I pulled the covers up to my nose. [Ballyconnoe Productions, Logo: image of a half bald doll with a dodgy eye holding a mace]

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^–1SWMNBN to her friendsⁱ

^-–0.5They were of Russian design I think, Chekov or something like that.

⁰My reaction was:"..."ⁱⁱ

¹She sleeps in the master bedroom with her parents. I think it is because she is used to immediate service. Since she drinks copious amounts during the night, when she finds her cup empty, she'll reach over and whack the parent closest declaring:"More!"

²Index and middle finger of the person's hand point at their eyes and then turn and point at you; This really did happen. I found out later that Diorraing had been doing it to her and as a result she picked it up.

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ⁱThink Lovecraft.

ⁱⁱIt was how I didn't say it that said it all.