- The one about the time the FBI came to arrest her drug dealer boyfriend and she had a loaf of cornbread in the oven.
- The one about how Johnny Carson told her she looked “medicinal.”
- The one about how she met my Daddy when he came to repossess her car.
- The one about how she was hired to be a blackjack dealer in Vegas but when the day came to go she just didn't show up.
- The one about going to The Nutcracker when I was two and how I ran down to look in the Orchestra pit.
- The one about getting high with Bill Clinton.
- The one about how Waylon Jennings proposed to her.
- The one about LBJ and Melvin Belli helping her get her kids back.
- The one about how I rode around our living room on my tricycle taking orders for McDonalds and when one guest asked for a Big Mac, one Filet O Fish, a Quarter Pounder and French Fries, an icy Coke, one thick shake, a sundae and an apple pie I rode around and came back and handed him an imaginary bag and he said “What’s this?” And I said “It’s what you ordered stupid.”
- The one about how she killed an alligator.
As I write my first memoir I will post here about my struggles, victories, discoveries, and the hilarity I am certain to encounter along the way. The girls in my writing group, Writers On Fire, call me "A Plus" because I do the homework. This is part of it. That said, I guarantee nothing.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
TOP 10 STORES MY MAMA LIKES TO TELL
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