Saturday, August 23, 2008

WE FOUGHT TOO

8-23-08...WE FOUGHT TOO

Now folks, Brenda and I loved and helped each other but we had an occasional brawl too. When we were in about 3rd and 4th grades at School we started making friends other than each other. Good Idea because we had to break free a little and explore other people. It had always been just us. But Hey, when we got home it was the same as it had always been. Well it was till one Saturday when we had a day planned for lots of things to do. We were at Brenda's house just having a ball down by the pig pens. YUKKY now but I dont remember even noticing that then. We heard a car coming down the lane. And now folks when a car came down that lane it was coming to our house!! Didn't matter which house either, still our house. We waited and listened till the car came in sight to see which house it would stop at. We were prepared to get to the house before they stopped. It came on up to Brenda's house and we ran to meet it. Well now let me tell you right now, thats when the manure hit the fan!! It was Brenda's friend Wilma Jane. Now I did not like "WILEMER PANE" at all (that was the worst thing I could think up to call her) I didn't like that snooty nosed thing infringing on my place in Brenda's life. Durn Her Nuthin but a long nosed smart elec. Brenda she's not'a stayin here and Im'a gonna' tell her so. I was ready to tell her to by golly when Brenda did something she had never done before, that little nut pushed me down. Go home Clydene we dont want you here! well let me tell you the blue fire jumped up and flowed over. How dare her, why the nerve of that smart elec, push me will you. I was up like a bolt of lightening and the squabble was on. First I let WILMER have it with all the claws I could muster up, then I went after Brenda. Wilmer pane's snubby nosed Mother started screaming like a wild bull with a hornet on his backside and here came my Auntie. I was busy working on Brenda when My auntie got hold of me. Clydene! What is wrong with you? What do you think your'a doin'? Well I was fired up like a ol' settin' hen and I wasn't hearing anything. I mean to tell you I think my brain had exploded, might'a been foaming at the mouth for all I know, I WAS MADDDDD! Wilmer had blood running down her nose and her Mama was taking on like a lost milk cow in the woods. ( by the way she looked like one too). Auntie held me till I calmed down a bit but when I found out that Wilmer and her Mama had come to pick Brenda up to take somewhere, "WELL" more manure! Mama was there by then and was prepared to take me home via way of the peach tree. When Brenda started to get in the car, I come un-glues again. They calmed me down and Brenda didn't go. I don't think snub nose wanted her to go by then. I had to tell Wilmer and her cow Mama that I was sorry and was supposed to hug them but they didn't want a hug for some reason. RECON WHY? Brenda and I were separated for a few days. I was given a lecture and told how I had to let Brenda have her friends and I had to have my friends too. I was so unhappy during the week-end. I think our Teachers were in on it too because they kept us apart in school all week. On Saturday we were back to normal but we were changing and beginning to understand why we couldn't always have it the way it had been. We still were together a lot, we still loved each other but we learned that our worlds didn't revolve around each other. Oh Yes! we still got in to trouble now and then. Even now sometimes we go on one of our tangents. Before Mama died Brenda was down here and we both stayed overnight with Mama. She had to knock on the wall just the way she used to and tell us to quieten down. "GIRLS QUITEN DOWN IN THERE NOW" Another thing I was to come to understand too. I was not really mad, I was hurt, jealous and scared, But most of all JEALOUS. Mama worked on me a while on that one. Jealousy is a bad thing Clydene. Yep I know that Mama, I know....