Chapter 36
Can you imagine the frustrated feeling if you’d ever woke up on Christmas morning to find that all you REALLY had was a sack of switches?
Or how about the time you put a tiny baby tooth under your pillow—what if instead of a shiny new dime to replace the tooth you’d found a note from the Tooth Fairy that read, “I got the tooth and you ain’t got nothin’—ha, ha, ha, ha! !”
That’s the kind of letdown I had this week. My mother called—long distance, even—to tell me that it was raining cats and dogs and polka dotted elephants in Tishomingo—and that it was COOL!!!
Right away I could smell the wetness of a sudden downpour. I could feel the great big drops splatter all over me. Great visions of tremendous sheets of falling water clouded my eyes. Then… NO RAIN!!! Disappointment deluxe.
I don’t like summer anyway and this certainly did not put any little black x’s on its advantages side. I’m a whole lot like the little old lady down home who was asked which season she liked best and why.
She rocked a while as she thought then came to a decision. Seems she liked the winter best of all! She saic that in the wintertime a body could just pile on the clothes and then pile on some more and pretty soon they WOULD get warm. But in the summertime, they could just take them off so far!!
This past month of swelterin’ heat has been enough to make the devil himself put in central air conditioning. Then the rain comes so close and passes us right on by.
Maybe we just ain’t livin’ right around here.
Or maybe those folks down South are doin’ something we ain’t.
I bet they’ve been practicing dances. Wonder if perhaps they would loan us their costumes and teach us the steps.
If they would and if I had a written statement from all the neighbors not to lock me away in the Sahara Desert for a hundred years—or even thirty seconds—I might be willing to try a little rain Watusi, or Charleston, or Waltz or whatever! !!
Gee, if only I had a big bowl of snow ice cream right now! Or if I could go outside and let my nose get red from the COLD instead of a sunburn! And if IFS and BUTS were candy and nuts