KITTIES, PUPPIES AND TWO LEGGERS WHEN MOM
TOLD ME THIS STORY I FELL OVER ON MY BACK AND MOL
THIS STORY IS B.M. (no not that bm) B(efore) M(adi).
TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN THE PEEPS MOVED
INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD MY HUMAN SIS WAS TWELVE. NEARLY EVERY HOUSE
HAD ONE OR MORE MUNCHKINS UNDER FIFTEEN YEARS OLD AND ALL THE ADULTS WERE IN THEIR LATE 30'S EXCEPT FOR THE FOLKS WHO LIVED IN THE HOUSE PICTURED BELOW. DURING THE SUMMER, SIS MET THE MUNCHKINS IN THE 'HOOD, THEY ALL HAD A STORY TO TELL HER ABOUT THIS HOUSE. THE MAN IN THE HOUSE WAS RARELY SEEN OUTSIDE; HOWEVER, WHEN HE WAS SEEN
HE WAS REPORTED TO BE BEARDED, WITH MESSY HAIR AND CLOTHES,
HE SHUFFLED ABOUT AND THEY WERE SURE HE HAD CHAINS AROUND HIS ANKLES, WHICH IS HOW THE CONVICT STORY BEGAN.
SHORTLY BEFORE SCHOOL STARTED IN THE FALL, SIS AND MOM WERE WALKING BY THIS HOUSE TO FIND HER DESIGNATED BUS STOP. SIS TOLD MOM ALL THE MUNCHKINS TOLD HER A CONVICT LIVED IN THIS HOUSE. THEY CONVINCED HER THE ONLY SAFE WAY TO PASS THIS HOUSE SAFELY WAS TO RUN LIKE THE WIND.
MOM SAID MY SIS WAS WORRIED ABOUT RUNNING WITH ALL HER BOOKS.
THE FIRST FEW WEEKS OF SCHOOL SIS HAD TO PASS THIS HOUSE EVERY AFTERNOON ALL ALONE. SOME HOW SHE SURVIVED AND NEVER SAW THE CONVICT. FORTUNATELY, FOR HER SOME OTHER MUNCHKINS WHO LIVED NEAR US STARTED TAKING THE AFTERNOON BUS. THEY WALKED BY THIS SCARY HOUSE
IN A TIGHT UNIT!!
A FEW MONTHS LATER, WE LEARNED THE TRUE IDENTITY OF
THE FOLKS IN THIS HOUSE. THEY WERE RETIRED AND IN THEIR LATE 60'S. THE MAN WAS BEARDED, HE SHUFFLED, DUE TO AGE. HE DID NOT HAVE CHAINS AROUND HIS ANKLES. HIS CLOTHES WEREN'T MESSY; HOWEVER, THEY WERE NOT THE KIND OF CLOTHES THE KIDS WERE USED TO SEEING. WE LATER LEAREND THEY MOVED TO RALEIGH FROM ATLANTA TO BE NEAR THEIR CHILDREN. MOM WOULD SAY HELLO TO THE MAN BUT NEVER SAW HIS WIFE OUTSIDE.
ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO THE ELDERLY COUPLE MOVED INTO AN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY. IT IS NOW OCCUPIED BY A YOUNG COUPLE WHO COMLETELY REMODELED IT. I WONDER IF THEY KNOW THE HOUSE WAS ONCED OWNED BY A 'CONVICT'?
TO THIS DAY, THE ONLY CONVICTS WE KNOW IN THE 'HOOD ARE THESE TWO TREES
WHO HAVE BEEN CHAINED TO ONE ANOTHER FOR SOMETIME......
DO YOU HAVE ANY FUNNY STORIES ABOUT YOU NEIGHBORHOOD?
HUGS MADI AND MOM
