Day
323
Candy buttons
from Georgie May
When
we lived on our farm at Maeystown, we dropped the kids at the town Post Office
to wait for the school bus; after Beth turned 16 they didn’t need public
transportation.
The
kids had a ball waiting at the Post Office as Candy’s aunt Lillian was the Post
Mistress for the town; in the spring she often received shipments of baby
chicks for one of the citizens; the kids just loved petting the
feathered-friends while waiting for the bus.
Kids
seem to manage to make “Good”---“Better”. An elderly woman lived in the village
and she befriended the kids as they gathered in front of her “once” grocery
store; to make a “happy”-buck, Georgie May would sell the urchins stale-candy
from some by-gone era. We learned that the favorite of her “patrons” was
“candy-buttons” on a strip of white wax paper.
As
Becky ascended the “grade”-ladder and she grew into maturity, of a sort, she
began meeting her “chauffeur” after school at the local tavern, Hoeft’s, where
she ran a “candy tab”.
Mom
Candy would go in to visit proprietor “Rick” on Wednesday to pay Becky’s
sweet-bill when we retrieved the children to drive them home. Always an adventure to be uncovered!
With
a sense-of-humor attitude, all things can be accomplished for Good!
Ah! Cookie
Jar Sweet “Just put it on my tab!” Memories!
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