You finally got a picture in buddy!!!
Patrick Griffin just isn't well in the head.I'm sorry,but that is the truth.Pa will sing,anywhere,anytime,anysong.At the age of 14,he got up on stage infront of hundreds of parents and kids,totally unannounced and sang a Tom Jones song.
Martin once stabbed Pa in the eye,which we all thought was fairly funny.All this brown stuff started coming out of his eye and he was screaming.It was funny.Once,Ger,me(alan) and Pa were cycling up to the hut,me and Pa ahead and Ger was behind us.All of a sudden,Ger cycles between me and Pa very quickly.Pa panics,and veers off across the road.He hits this grass verge and tumbles through the air,screaming(he likes to scream).After about fortyeleven tumbles,he gets up .We think he is laughing,until he starts cursing at us and being very abusive.
The best story concerning Pa has to be the time we were all in the river swimming.He was warned a few times to stay away from the powerful currents,as he was still a very weak swimmer.We were all having a good laugh,until we hear..........."aahhh,jesus,aaaawwwww,fuck......"At this stage,Pa is being washed downstream.Me and Ger swim after him and eventually catch up to him.He is going under at this stage,so we have to hold him up.But,the problem was,Pa wasn't exactly the skinniest person at that time,so the only solution was to stand on the river bed,and hold him over the surface.We took turns to go under the water and hold him up.At one stage,I got tormented and held his head under the water just to teach him a lesson.Peter took his time coming downstream in the boat as he thought we were only messing.
One evening,we were swimming and heard a sound in the bushes.Pa asked Ger what it was,to which Ger replied"that was a Reptopod,they are dangerous".Of course,we all know they don't exist,but Pa panicked when we said that we should swim across the river.He still gets upset when we mention that one!
Overall,Pa is just a bit touched,really,and if you want to get into his good books.......just give him a beer and get him to sing "oh darling".
