Yesterday, September 3, would have been my parents' 58th wedding anniversary. Fifty eight years. Wow! You wouldn't have looked at either of them and thought they could have been married that long. My dad still looks young. If it hadn't been for the disease that had ravaged her body, my mother looked young, too.
Momma loved the yard sales. Every Saturday morning she drug my dad out. He was so, so patient with her. He never really like the sales, or claimed he didn't, but drove for her every week. That was their together time. He drove, she navigated with her not so trustworthy map. Which invariably lead to the following "conversation".
"Turn here! Turn here! Turn here!"
"Dad-burn it, Mildred! I'm in the wrong lane and cars are behind me! Why didn't you tell me awhile back!?"
Once, they followed the signs through a neighborhood, taking all the turns, right here, left there, until they finally saw cars, lots of stuff in the yard and people milling around. They stopped the car, got out and started browsing, but nothing was priced. Daddy finally asked someone how much something was and was told, "Oh, nothing's for sale. We're moving." Now, these people had just stood around and let them look without saying a word! What were they thinking? My dad was mortified. Momma just thought it was funny.
Momma was a bit clumsy, too. She never lifted her feet high enough. They were walking through a yard to a sale and had to step over a brick retaining wall to the driveway where the sale items were on display. She didn't left her foot high enough and knocked down the whole retaining wall! Now, it must have been ready to fall, but how embarrassing is that?
Another time the sellers had glassware displayed on a blanket on the driveway. Daddy saw her headed that way and warned her. "Don't try to step over that." "Mildred! Don't try to step over that!" "Don't......" Yep. She tried to step over that, grazed a taller piece, lost her balance and if I remember correctly, fell into it. She was fine, but quite a few pieces were broken.
There were many more similar stories, but these three I remember.
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