EDDIE GEDALOFF....a supreme being!! :) ***With the expansion of - TopicsExpress



          

EDDIE GEDALOFF....a supreme being!! :) ***With the expansion of the programme in Malawi the professional staff requirements grew to respond to the increase and diversification of the work, thus, a few months after I arrived, Eddie, a Canadian Jew, joined us as Social-Services officer. The office was getting small for so many people but in Joke’s room, behind the door there was a forgotten desk, forever vacant, positioned straight across from hers. Every morning before the meeting, with my coffee mug in hand I would land, butt first, on top of said desk to inaugurate the day with some overdue conversation. On the morning that Eddie arrived, since there was no other free space, they assigned it to him. Without having met him or even knowing he was there I followed the daily ritual entering with my usual lack of discretion, and without looking threw my considerable butt on top of his desk chatting uninterruptedly while Joke nervously tried to tell me something. Suddenly I heard this polite voice rising tentatively from behind my rear-end, “..hum, pardon me, it’s not that I’m not enjoying the view, but perhaps we should introduce ourselves prior to becoming so intimate? ..and believe me, I’m not complaining at all!!”. Eddie was a sweetheart, a good man, red-haired, deceptively calm, tall with a beard and the perpetually worried look so often associated with Semites but extremely patient and opportune in his jokes. He and his wife threw fantastic parties where we danced to exhaustion, he reminded me a lot of Cy. I remember bursting into his office early one the morning, which is when my existentialist crisis tend to befall, and asking him point-blank, “ Eddie, do you believe in God?”, and he, drowned in paperwork, looked up from behind the huge pile of documents and sighed, “.. oh yes I do, ..who else could be punishing me?!”. In any meeting that would last more than half-an-hour Eddie would lean back and close his eyes, we all said he was asleep but he defended he was simply paying undivided attention, and no matter how hard we tried to catch him off guard our sudden questions never went unanswered. Even without corroborating evidence to the crime I still think he was napping while we died of jealousy...*** TC in BY TRIAL AND ERROR
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:52:53 +0000

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