Had company last week, my ole country sister came to town. She stays in the deep woods of South Carolina on the Catawba River and she drips country; from the way she talks to her eating habits.
We attended the Strawberry Festival in Pasadena with the real feel temperature hovering around a hundred. Tried my best to get her to ride in the helicopter but she would have nothing to do with it. Said, “I ain’t getting in no helicopter!” So me and the granddaughter got tickets and took a quick up and around the fairgrounds ride. Quickest twenty bucks I ever spent but it was worth it to see the little girl smile as we took off. This was her first time to ride in a chopper, my second and this one was jet turbine. I asked the fellow taking up tickets how much one of those helicopters cost, he quoted $1.2 million.
Ole sister had her first beef brisket at the Catholic Church Bazaar Sunday. Said it was good and cleaned her plate…as usual. She was much surprised that beer was sold at the event but I told her it was to wash down the barbeque for the auction buyers.
She cracks me up, at the dinner table; we have grinders for salt and pepper – remove the top, turn upside down and grind out the salt. She was sitting there twisting the dickens out of the salt and nothing would come out. She did not take the cover off and when she did, it was full of salt.
Took her to our favorite Mexican restaurant and suggested she get a Summer Special. When they brought it before her, she looked at me and said, “How do I eat it.” There was fresh guacamole, a bean chalupa, a beef taco and chili con queso tostada. She managed to get through the meal and said it was very good. Lots different than the Taco Bell they have down in Columbia, SC.
Quick witted she is, I made a comment about something saying, momma only raised one fool and she cut in and said, yea, he is in Texas.
She worked at the bleachery for years, later going to work with Mack Trucks. She had me arm wrestle her one time and she beat my socks off. She used air tools to put the brakes on those big units and was strong from doing so.
She worked on the line and said one of her girlfriends had placed a rubber snake up under a truck where she would be putting on brakes. Said that truck came down the line and she got down doing the brakes and seeing that snake, came up from there screaming and hollering. All her workers around were laughing at her hysterics.
When it comes to sisters, I got the best.
