HOBOS

8-01-08...HOBOS

We lived right by a RR track when I was growing up. The crossing was only a small distance from our house and there was a train came by around midnight. It would start the whistle just in front of our house and it would blow until it got to the crossing. Boy did Brenda and I have fun with that if we had company who were not farmiliar with that procedure. Scared the pants off them! There were Hobo's who walked the track all the time then. They would stop at our house and ask for food and water. They always got it. We were not a bit afraid of them. In those days no one locked doors. We just went to sleep with no worry. Sure is different now. Anyway one night we had a friend staying all night with us. She had never been there before so Of course we planned to scare her big time. We had done it to others but this was a snooty cousin of ours from the city (she called it a city but it was just a small town. Little snot nosed smart elec) we really wanted to get her good and proper so we planned the event for several days and come up with a neato' plan. We thought! We decided to get Pricilla( yep Prissy silly) outside before the train came and scare her spitless then threaten her about what we would do if she told. We stayed awake because we were so used to the noise we never even heard it anymore. Prissy silly' went to sleep. Brenda was and still is a sleep hard head. Couldn't wake her with a bomb once she was asleep so I had a big job keeping her awake. Everytime I realized she was driftin' off I'd nudge her very gently with a open diaper pin. When she would jump and start to holler I'd put my hand over her mouth and nose to stiffle it down. Clydene you better quit or Ima' gonna' tell! Shut up Brenda and be quiet. Your a gonna' wake Prissy Silly. That was quiet an ordeal. My gosh I sure was havin' to work hard to pull this one off. Well at just the right time I woke Prissy silly and told her we were going out to pee' so come on. I don't have to go. Well if you don't go now we are not goin' with you when you need to go. She came but she had to have her robe and fuzzy silly slippers. We were beginnin' to think we'd never get the little smart elec' out. Well we did get her out just as the train started that mournful whistle. Sounded like all the demons were coming and Prissy Silly just went berserk, banana's and crazy all rolled in to one. We had done it YAAHOOO! But now wait a minute, not so fast, somethin' was certainly not right here! Remember, I told you about those hobo's? We we never figured that one would be bedded down in the grass on the other side of the fence. Nope never knew they done' that, Nope, sure didn't know that. He raised up when Prissy silly was screamin' like a hyena and we all saw him. We all started screamin' and hollerin' and tryin' to run and just succeeded in going to the ground in a big heap, scrambled to get up and got all tangled up in Prissy Silly's robe with the pink tassles that matched her fuzzy pink slippers. Prissy Silly had long pink fingernails and they were thrashing the heck outta' us. Let me get hold of her, I guarantee you she won't have any more fingernails, Brenda. Well Brenda was screaming and crying and scratching too and lucky for me her fingernails were worn down just like mine. Mama and Daddy came running out and I heard Brenda's Mama and Daddy a comin' through the pasture just a hollering. Wanna' know what they were hollering, Huh Do Ya? What have they done now?!!! Well that wasn't nice now was it. We coulda been hurt. We all quited down only to hear such moaning and groaning comin' from over by the track. We had scared that old man so bad he had got up and run. With the train going by he was blown back down in the weeds which in that spot was a blackberry vine. GET THE PICTURE? Now what we didn't know at the time was Daddy had told him he could sleep there. He was old and Mama had fed him that afternoon. We got over our scare of him and started gettin' scared of the peach tree limb. We always went out at night to use the BR and we weren't scared of the old Hobo. We knew him almost like family. He was through there often but Prissy Silly had us so worked up. Her screaming coulda' woke the dead we thought. We we taken in and our scratches were doctored and we were put to bed. But We Knew, Oh yep we knew. Morning was comin' and we kinda figured what was gonna' happen'. Well it sure did happen. We were expectin' it and knew we deserved it but this time it was a tough pill to swaller' cause' Prissy Silly got to watch and then of all things, we had to tell her we were sorry and give her a hug. "PSHEW" That was nasty. Yep, that one backfired on us. And our Parents made us feel so sorry for what we had done to that old hobo. But now fellin' sorry for Prissy Silly was just too much for us to swallow. Nope, We never did feel sorry for her. She had it comin' Don't Ya Think?????