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Pastimes : FLAME THREAD - Post all obnoxious/derogatory comments here

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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (7336)7/23/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Druss  Read Replies (1) of 12754
 
Cajun Cheerleaders

Dear Mr. Druss
Thank you for responding to my letter about Sherry. I do remember a lot more of course about her besides us jest bein cheerleaders. Furst off I cain't say that anyone I knowed drank fer 'medicinal purposes' like you said we might. Everybody I knowed drank to git drunk. Sherry did drink too. I remember her sayin it were the only thing keepin her from 'goin crazy in this hick town.' I never figured out whut she was upset about. Whut other kind of town would you want ter live in?
Sherry could hold her liquor though, I remember all of the guys complained about it. Cost them a fortune and never get drunk enough they said.
You wuz sharp to see that I were married but planning ter get married to Canby Higgenbottom. You see, after high school I got married of course, all of the girls did except fer the ones havin kids or Sherry. Sherry up and left town fer New Orleans. She weren't even pregnant or nuthin. That were a real scandal I kin tell you. Ifn she had been pregnant it would have been OK cause then it would jest look like she were pertecting the family name and all. But jest to leave, it made her look powerful uppity.
Anyways I married Wade Stubblefield, and about six months later had my furst kid Ranson. We wuz never shure Ranson wuz Wades cause I passed out at the party when the Devils won the state championship and don't know fer sure who had a shot at being his dad. But Wade always treated him jest like his own. He whupped the tar out of all the kids so he were a purty good father.
Wade were kilt after our sixth kid Ida were born. The utility company decided to run some power lines through Black Water. They wuz lookin fer electric people to work on the lines. Wade had seen them at work and figured he had lots of practice shinnying up trees after possums and coons that got stuck there after he shot them and ifn he could do that he could climb them poles. There must be more to that electic stuff than the pole climbin I guess. His furst day Wade did somethin with them wires and knocked out the power to Shreveport for three hours and fried hisself too. He wuz up there a sizzlin the whole time the power were out. Smelt like the rib barbeque at Pollards Barbeque Emporium when they have pork ribs. I guess I shouldn't say that but it is true. Wade an I were fightin anyways so I guess it saved us havin to go through a messy divorce an all. I hear that is hard on kids so I reckon it were fer the best. I got a widows pension from the power company so that worked out well too.
With the pension an me only havin six kids I were a prime catch I reckon and plenty come a courtin me. I settled on Bob Warston who were a gud possum hunter (I had gotten used to havin possum regular with Wade). We had three kids and were happy enough I reckon when Bob were kilt. Least ways that is the way it seems. He heard there were some shine bein stored in a gator hole near Vicks River. He jest dove right in that hole, he always did have a taste fer shine. He never come out, Old Man Grimes who knows that river better than anybody says there ain't nothin but a ten foot gator what lives in that hole so I reckon Bob is a goner by now.
I married once to be married (I didn't want to be an old maid like Sherry was so willin ter be) and I married once fer regular possum and I decided ter marry this time fer love. An God heared my prayers, Canby Higgenbottom divorced his wife fer sleepin with Pastor Wittman and were free. We has been livin together jest happy as we can be. As soon as they declare Bob dead we's gonna marry. I think this is all fer the good, I heared you shouldn't marry yer cousins anyways so the children Canby and I have might turn out even better than my other kids.
Sincerly
Loretta
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