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Enjoy these photos from Clara Robinson Meek. The Photos were taken in Childress at the All School Reunion 2005. Thanks, Clara!
Bettye Shahan Bagley, Clara, Marilyn Harp Taylor class of '62, Marsha Harris class of '64
Bettye Shahan Bagley and Raenell Wynn Smith
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The name of this story is, "The Atomic Bomb of All Water Baloons"
On the 1st corner East of Wilson Elementary is where Jimmy Smith lived. Next door were those gorgeous King twins.....then Jimmy Czewski, then Johnny Wright. The last thing on that block was an iddy biddy gas station.....which is the scene of the crime for the purpose of this story........
It was Saturday....1953..3rd grade....and I was invited to Johnny Wright's birthday party that morning......but I plum, snackdag forgot about it. That morning I took my trusty hunting knife and went to the park trying to catch frogs. On the way back home, the call of nature started screaming at me and I barely made it to the bathroom in that iddy biddy gas station. Whilst sitting, I noticed that right next to the throne was this really neato bubble gum machine mounted on the wall. I looked up into its outlet....and EUREKA!!!!!!.....right there!!!.....on two little prongs....was wedged an obvious package of gum....which I could not reach.....however....not to let such an miniscule obstacle preclude me from my goal......I whuuuped out my hunting knife and jiggled the thing till it got got unstuck and.....out it came!!!
My mouth was just a waterin' as I was unwrapping the package....just the thought of chewing all that gum in one fell swoop. But guess what?....when I finally got the thing opened, out fell the two most fantastic balloons I had ever seen. Man oh man!!!!.....I was blowing those things up...and making them screech like a trumpet....and looking in the mirror thru them.....and calculating that I reckoned each one would hold about a gallon of water......which I could use to plop onto my scoundrel older brother's head. They were, undoubtedly, the master weapon....the Atomic Bomb of All Water Balloons.,,,........So...off I go back home. While walking home... Johnny Wright was in the alley and hollered, "Mike....why wern't you at my birthday Party?"...(actually in our Texas accent it was more like..."Mak....Wha wernchu et ma burthday parrdy?")......
I felt bad for forgetting his party so I just said......"here Johnny.....have one of my water balloons." He was every bit as impressed with thse master weapons as I was so he was all happy with me again. Next morning was Sunday morning......My Mother's wash day.....I am sleeping away when I hear my Mother hollering for me in the "warsh room." ...I went wandering in there and there she is.....up to her knees in Sunday's laundry.......looking at me with her face all screwed up.....and holding up in the air......my dadblamed water balloon. She says...."Mike....do you know what this is?".....I said "I sure do.....its about the best water balloon in the whole wide world and gimmie it back.".......alas...you got it.....I never got to drop that killer balloon on Jimmy's head.... Regretted to this day.
Jim and I loved the story, too. I am trying to wring some stories out of Jim. Too bad I didn't listen when he told them to me the first time! LOL
Thanks for sharing,
Nicki
Love the story, Mike ... and the dialect. One of my favorite mangled words from that time was "wrench" ... as in "Ahm a-fixin' to put a wrench on my hair" ... er, har ....
Note from the Childress Index:
"All School Reunion 2008- Need updated addresses for all graduating CHS Classes! "It's up to the ones who live in Childress to take an interest in obtaining a lot of names and addresses of those in your class!' sponsors emphasized. "Your're never too young (or old) to join us to keep the All School Reunion alive. Please take your list to the Childress Chamber of Commerce Office, 237 Commerce' "
Anyone know who is taking care of the class of 1963??
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