One of the first things I can remember, we would call a small store and ask if they had Pop in a bottle? They would say yes, We would say: let him out, maw wants him.
We would holler at a driver to stop, when he did we would say; your wheels are going around. And run like the wind.
If some one was walking a distance in front of you, holler to get their attention and tell them to stop. When you caught up with them, Say: how much farther would you be down the sidewalk if I hadn’t stopped you? then run like hell.
We would call a home and ask if they knew what was on the roof of their house? When they came out to look, we would laugh at them and say it was roofing or shingles.
Most coats and jackets had liners in the sleeves, We would tie the liner in a knot and stand and watch when they tried to put an arm in the coat
I have zipped the left and right overshoe together or buckle up’s left and right together? Everyone wanted to be the first to get outside after school. Have you ever tied shoes laces together? Sat on a tack, put a frog or a garden snake in a lunch pail?
We would tell the girls, kiss or go to jail, they didn’t understand, so they would kiss, Sometimes we would say: kiss and don’t tell or you get Frogs or Polliwogs, they were all scared of them. Kiss- kiss and more kisses. The kisses were awful, why would other do that?
I soon learned that Girls can’t count, I could exchange money with them and make money doing it I would ask a girl for change for a quarter, and tell her I wanted ten pennies a nickel and two dimes. I always made a dime. If they thought I was cheating them, I would give them back the nickel and two dimes and take back the quarter, then they were satisfied .
In the winter months, we would clear a sidewalk and then go tell the people that we cleaned their sidewalk, and they would pay us, we always picked the easy ones. In the fall of a year, we would put leaves on a person’s walk and offer to clear them for a fee. A police man that lived down the street, paid the best!
Once I offered to rub lotion on a high school girl, she loved it and didn’t want me to stop. Once a young married woman was having a time with her guarder belt and asked for my help. We must have hooked and un-hooked that thing a dozen time and put it back on her, boy was I ever getting tired of doing that!
My teacher use up more rulers than all the other schools put together, she kept breaking them over the back of my hands. I would laugh when she was doing this and some times she used three or four rulers up. She always done this in front of the class, thinking she would teach a lesson. Maybe that is why I failed?
I called her momma at times. When ever our school was talked about, my name was always mentioned. I can remember the retirement party they gave for the teacher. She sure aged during her tenure.
When I entered the fourth grade, I had to go to a different school. No it wasn’t the reform school, it was the other one for advanced students, “well” after all, I was almost thirteen.
If someone wanted to get me mad, all they needed to do was call me Benny, My name was Benjamin and those that didn’t use it, Got a bloody nose or a Black eye. For a time there, I was being blamed for every black eye gotten in school. Why I think I spent more time in the principle’s office than he did. Boys out numbered the girls two to ten. You didn’t miss that one did you?
By; Ben R.
12/16/2010
We would holler at a driver to stop, when he did we would say; your wheels are going around. And run like the wind.
If some one was walking a distance in front of you, holler to get their attention and tell them to stop. When you caught up with them, Say: how much farther would you be down the sidewalk if I hadn’t stopped you? then run like hell.
We would call a home and ask if they knew what was on the roof of their house? When they came out to look, we would laugh at them and say it was roofing or shingles.
Most coats and jackets had liners in the sleeves, We would tie the liner in a knot and stand and watch when they tried to put an arm in the coat
I have zipped the left and right overshoe together or buckle up’s left and right together? Everyone wanted to be the first to get outside after school. Have you ever tied shoes laces together? Sat on a tack, put a frog or a garden snake in a lunch pail?
We would tell the girls, kiss or go to jail, they didn’t understand, so they would kiss, Sometimes we would say: kiss and don’t tell or you get Frogs or Polliwogs, they were all scared of them. Kiss- kiss and more kisses. The kisses were awful, why would other do that?
I soon learned that Girls can’t count, I could exchange money with them and make money doing it I would ask a girl for change for a quarter, and tell her I wanted ten pennies a nickel and two dimes. I always made a dime. If they thought I was cheating them, I would give them back the nickel and two dimes and take back the quarter, then they were satisfied .
In the winter months, we would clear a sidewalk and then go tell the people that we cleaned their sidewalk, and they would pay us, we always picked the easy ones. In the fall of a year, we would put leaves on a person’s walk and offer to clear them for a fee. A police man that lived down the street, paid the best!
Once I offered to rub lotion on a high school girl, she loved it and didn’t want me to stop. Once a young married woman was having a time with her guarder belt and asked for my help. We must have hooked and un-hooked that thing a dozen time and put it back on her, boy was I ever getting tired of doing that!
My teacher use up more rulers than all the other schools put together, she kept breaking them over the back of my hands. I would laugh when she was doing this and some times she used three or four rulers up. She always done this in front of the class, thinking she would teach a lesson. Maybe that is why I failed?
I called her momma at times. When ever our school was talked about, my name was always mentioned. I can remember the retirement party they gave for the teacher. She sure aged during her tenure.
When I entered the fourth grade, I had to go to a different school. No it wasn’t the reform school, it was the other one for advanced students, “well” after all, I was almost thirteen.
If someone wanted to get me mad, all they needed to do was call me Benny, My name was Benjamin and those that didn’t use it, Got a bloody nose or a Black eye. For a time there, I was being blamed for every black eye gotten in school. Why I think I spent more time in the principle’s office than he did. Boys out numbered the girls two to ten. You didn’t miss that one did you?
By; Ben R.
12/16/2010
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