Saturday

[nightdog_barks]

Hot and sunny. Watered the deck plants and discovered, resting on the bare ground beside the coiled-up garden hose, a bird's egg. I think it belongs to a mourning dove, but how it got to that particular spot I have no idea. I mean, obviously something carried it away, but was it another bird? A squirrel? An opossum or a raccoon would've eaten it. I don't know. I put it back in the grass.

Vacuuming and watching the Little League World Series. I'll bet Wilson played Little League, until his mother realized he could hurt his hands or break an ankle or get hit in the face with a ball. Remember in the episode with the bumper cars, he said his parents never let him do that (drive bumper cars)? I think it's part of my headcanon that Wilson's mom and dad were crazy-overprotective and kept him from doing a lot of fun things.

Aaaaand I'm rambling. Back to vacuuming.

Comments

[blackmare]

I think of the Elder Wilsons as a weird combo of crazy overprotective and abysmally negligent. They wouldn't let him drive a bumper car but would have left him largely to his own devices, I think, for long stretches of time -- watching his brother, very likely -- and as long as everything seemed fine and nobody knew what they were really doing/had done, it was okay.

[namaste]

Wasn't that go carts rather than bumper cars? At least go karts are used in racing, so it's not totally over-the-top nervous nellie reaction. (At least when I was growing up, the go kart crowds were some pretty hard core older boys.)

[nightdog_barks]

Was it go carts? I can't remember -- all I do remember is that they were running into each other (as when Sam sent him into the hay bales or whatever the barrier was). I think you're right in that they were not classic bumper cars. Apparently they're also called dodgem cars, which is a name I like much better.

:-)

[pwcorgigirl]

Hehee! Mare, you just described my upbringing. :D But really that was pretty typical of the 1960s and '70s.

[blackmare]

I thought they did both, at different times. Bumper cars once, go-karts the next time out.

[nightdog_barks]

Yep, I think Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were very much into upholding the facade of normal appearances.

[taiga13]

Wilson seems like someone who would have played Little League. I so hope we learn more about the Wilson clan. I was struck by that line about go-carts because it was the first and still only time that Wilson had voluntarily mentioned his immediate family. Every other time it was under extreme duress. He's casually referred to his cousin, his godson, etc, but his parents and brothers - never.
I spent the day running errands, which is another way of saying "spending money".

[nightdog_barks]

And it's canon that he plays racquetball, tennis, and runs, so he's got a history of athletics! It just seems to me that Little League would have been a perfect Wilsonian activity. *g*

I am really hoping we learn more about his family this season. Maybe House will ask, trying to make conversation in an uncomfortable situation, and Wilson will snap something about his brother. That's an interesting point about him mentioning his parents under those conditions -- it was a real unguarded moment.

I spent the day running errands, which is another way of saying "spending money".

Heh. I know that story all too well.

[taiga13]

I've got a bet with myself that if Wilson's family is every shown/discussed, the writers will have forgotten or chosen to disregard that Wilson said he had two brothers.
Wilson's particular variety of screwed-upness has always said "dysfunctional family" to me. When Wilson told House about how Danny ran away, I thought it intriguing that he said "I was tired of being the guy that everybody counted on." That that pattern was already there before the guilt about Danny started.