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Funny What One Remembers (@ 1968)

 

      A good friend of my mother, was Gladys Walker she was an English teacher, from Marshall High School back in the 1960's when my mother was a Home Economics teacher, at the same school.  One day, she came over to our house for a visit. I remember walking into the living room and mom said, "Robbie, do you remember Mrs. Walker?"  I just smiled and sat down, on the couch next to mom. For no reason, Mrs. Walker looked at me and said, "Do you know the difference between a single petunia and a double petunia?"  I said, "no ma'am, what is the difference?"  She proceeded to tell me, this ....

                    A petunia is a flower, like a begonia.

                    A begonia is something you eat, like a sausage.

                    You can get arrested for sausage and battery, cause that's a crime.

                    Monkeys crime trees and trees a crowd.

                    Roosters crowd in the morning and that's a noise.

                    You have a noise on your face and also two eyes.

                    The opposite of eyes is nays.

                    A horse nays and a small horse is called a colt.

                    If, you go to bed at night with a colt, you may wake up in the morning with double-petunia.

 

    It's funny what one remembers, almost 50 years, ago!


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