Aunt Bill Rambles about Company

Well, this wadn’t what I wuz gonna tell you’uns about today, but I just haf  to tell you about the company we had yestiddy.  Our friend called and said she wuz comin’ to a funeral in Geraldine and wanted to come by here atter that.  Of course, I said, “Come on.”  Then another woman hear’d she wuz a-comin’ here and she wanted to come too.

John’s brother wuz here when they got here and the second woman come in the door a-tellin’ these men that her aunt married their great uncle.  He wuz the blind man what owned the telephone exchange and if’n he’d ever hear’d yore voice one time he know’d who you wuz the next time he hear’d ye.  Now as she wuz so excited about telling them all that she spied John’s high school diploma (1942) a hangin’ on the wall and she stopped cold about the marrying subject and started in on sompin’ else.   She couldn’t believe what she wuz a-seein’.  Her ma graduated the same year as John and both graduated from Crossville.  Atter they talked about that fer a few minutes John went and got his year book and handed it to her.  She’d never see’d one before.  I wish you coulda hear’d her talkin’ about this un and that un. She even see’d a ad in the there from her daddy’s cotton gin. She wuz so excited and then we found out her grandparents lived next door to my uncle what owned the blacksmith shop.  Y, we coulda talked to this woman for a week and not caught up.

This cold weather is a hurtin’ old folks and we try to stay at home and try to stay warm — then to have these visitors come in made our day.  Ain’t it fun to git together with other folks and talk about old times?  I’ve hear’d that old folks talk about the past because they have no future.  Oh my, guess you know what that means!!  Now this is enjoyable country living.