Run away!

One of the most hilarious moments in cinematography is in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A group of knights is attacked by a killer rabbit. After realizing they cannot win, they shout "run away!" Clip of the hilarity here.

Well, "run away" is exactly what Silie does. Often.

Silie's parents moved to North Carolina some time during Silie's childhood. She was living there when my brother was introduced to her online (yes, I know - and so does he, now!). Silie has a bad habit of running away to North Carolina when things do not go her way.

A few years back, when my nephew was just a year old, she went for a visit to North Carolina on April 2. Her plan was to be back home within a week or two.Her parents were to take her out there, and bring her back.

Two weeks stretched to three... then four... then five.

Then, her Tennessee Driver's License expired on her 35th birthday on May 10.

Yes - that's right - she stayed over five weeks!

Oh, but it gets better. Much better. She started saying that my brother needed to come pick her up. He was unable as he had a huge project going on at work. One which Silie knew about before the trip!

And then Silie started demanding that my brother buy a house, or she wouldn't come home. They had been in the process of looking for houses and had placed offers on several, but the realtor had not passed the offers along to the owners unbeknownst to my brother and Silie. So Silie blamed my brother for not having a house yet.

The weeks stretched into months. My family would ask her on Facebook when she was coming back home. She couldn't fly as her ID (the drivers license) had expired. Her parents would not bring her (by Silie's own request so as to "punish"' my brother). My brother could not go get her for all the work demands.

Finally, in mid-October, Silie finally had her parents bring her back. She claimed she was embarrassed to ask them to bring her home - despite the fact that the plan was for them to bring her home from the start!

So she had run away from her husband for over SIX MONTHS!

That was only the second time Silie ran away!


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