Peggy’s Prompt---remember the time when?

Peggy’s Prompt---remember the time when?





Remember the time when….

…we (Mary and I) were kids and Daddy threatened to spank us?

…we (Larry and I) were first married and Donna and I got into a fight?

…I missed my piano recital because I got the address wrong

…you (Larry) and I both had the flu at the same time, and the power went off, etc.

…we (Larry and I) went West in our camper, and Monique and David stayed out all night?

…we (Larry and I and Jonathan and the Jacksons and others) went tubing down the xxx River and you (Larry) turned over and spilled all your stuff in the water?

…Jonathan shot 3 3-point shots in one basketball game? (they lost)

…I said that freshwater fish have no scales. (and there are no elephants in Africa).

…Daddy held 5-week old Jonathan on his shoulder all through his nap? And then when I put Jonathan on the bed for his next nap, Daddy kept gently shaking the bed and saying “I think this boy’s waking up.”

…John called on the telephone to say that Candy had died, and all I could say was “Oh, John” over and over.

…Mama drove me to college in the midst of a hurricane?

…Dick and Alberta came to visit Mama and Daddy and they told dirty jokes after we went to bed, and we (Mary and I) sat with our ears to the bedroom door trying to hear?

…Mama said “You know I don’t like green.”

…Joe and Brazelle taught Melissa the names of things—the WRONG names.

…you were late for school if you weren’t in your seat at the end of the kid playing the trumpet as the flag was raised—was it Reveille?

…you (Mary) wouldn’t ever wear a skirt or dress—only Bermuda shorts?

…you (Alex) and I saw 25 roseate spoonbills in the edge of Clear Creek?

…you (Mama) drove me to first grade, and it turned out that school was not being held because there was no heat, and the temp was 45 degrees?

…I used to walk home from Delaware Avenue Elementary School through 7th street park to our house at the end of 6th street? Sometimes Mama would meet me in the park. Where was Mary? Did she bring her? Leave her home asleep?

…Daddy came home late at night and knocked the back steps over about two feet with the bumper of the car?

…I asked Mama if I was adopted, or if Daddy was my real father. Mama quit raking the mulch from around the orange trees long enough to assure me that he (Daddy) was my real father.

…I used to have girl friends sleep over, and you (Mary) had to sleep on the couch, and how you would position yourself right outside the door to hear what we were saying.

…we (Mary and I and Mama) used to play jacks on our polished wood bedroom floor?

…we (Mary and I and Mama) had the summer of almost continuous canasta?

…Debby used to call Mama “Minnie Moo”

…Carolyn got me to call up someone at random on the phone and ask them to please let Prince Albert out of the can?

…Martha sent me riding breeches---as if I was ever going to ride a horse!

…Agnes told me she hoped Debby would never grow as tall and skinny as me?

...our bridge club met at the Wilhelm’s house, and Gary showed porno flicks in the background?

…Mary would say “I own’t care” if I threatened to tattle on her

…Dennis and I rode to FSU football games on his motorcycle—me riding side-saddle in a skirt and no helmet.

…I saw the end of a rainbow in a field near the FSU Trailer Park? Where was the pot of gold? And the leprechaun.

…Jim was driving me home to Ft. Pierce, and his car spun around a few times on US 1.

…Bonnie’s boyfriend spiked the punch at our Christmas party at the FEA House. (And we were all restricted to campus for 3 weeks.)

…Lloyd came to pick me up for a date dressed in a cowboy outfit.

…to be continued