Mom Mom had a boyfriend. Now he's dead and in the shed.

My grandmother was so lost when my grandfather died. She missed him terribly. She left his flannel on his chair and his boots sit where he last took them off. It took her a long time to start living again. I would have to say about 12 years later she found a boyfriend. Al was his name. He was such a goofball. It wasn't that he was trying to be funny he was just odd. Don't get me wrong everyone liked Al, we just love to laugh at him more. Every time my grandmother went out with him, she would return with a wild story of her adventures with Al. They drove to Atlantic City. On the way there she called me. She was laughing so hard. Al had stopped at a Dunkin Donuts to clean himself up. He messed himself. Al was always doing something. He loved attention. During a trip to Vegas Al fell. I went to a flea market with him once and he saw a women he knew and he put his arm around me to try to make her think we were together. He found a Chuck-E-Cheese gift card on the ground and gave it to my son for his birthday.  Took him and my nieces and mom mom and found out the card was no good. It had only a few pennies left on it. I had Thanksgiving dinner and he came with my grandmother. Al got up from the dinner table. Walked to the bathroom. Threw open the door and tossed his cookies. It went everywhere. Including my ex-husband who was sitting on the toilet. Then he passed out. This was one of the best Thanksgivings ever. Not because Al was sick but because it was another Alventure. Well Al's last day was getting off a bus from Atlantic City. He was walking to his car and passed out again. This time he hit his head. He had a stroke and died. A few weeks later my mother and I were at mom mom's house and I saw two really pretty boxes. She had just gotten back from one of her many exotic trip. "Are those jewelry boxes". No she said. The one is Al's ashes. I was mortified. And the other Al's wife. "Mom mom why in the world do you have the ashes?" Well, his children didn't want them. I don't know the reason but my grandmother was now in possession of her dead boyfriends ashes and his dead wife. My mother and I thought it strange, but not as strange as where she had been keeping them. IN THE SHED! "Why in the shed mom mom?" "Twos company threes a crowd". At some point she finally shipped them both off with Al's children but his memory will always be with me as the kooky old man my grandmother had stored in her shed!  Missing you Al and all your Alventures!