A Social Commentary! (from Conroe, TX)
April 20, 2008
I was walking out of First Baptist after dropping my kids off at school this morning. I saw these two sweet little old ladies laboriously getting out of their car and approaching the door with their hands full. Of course, being the good citizen of Conroe that I am, I hurried to the door to open it for them. One was in a wheel chair, her lap full of trays and paper goods. The other was bent over in what appeared to be a painful hunchbacked position. She too had her hands full, with a box of shiny golden table decorations and after dinner mints. They were so cute together, going in to set up for the Ladies Luncheon that happens weekly at the Baptist church! I gave them a sweet smile and said, “Good morning, Ladies!” They reciprocated and then pointed out in a bellowing voice, “Good timing! I guess it was our lucky day. I don’t know whether we’s a made it in if you’da not shown up.” I laughed in my sweet, “being nice to old ladies laugh” and said that I too was glad I was there to help. And I truly was. It made me smile. I thought to myself, “I sure hope some 34 year old whipper snapper takes the time to hold a door open for me someday, if I am in a wheel chair.” I made sure they were in. I fixed the ficus tree and the entrance rug they had tangled with. And I closed the door behind them, waving a friendly good-bye. I turned to go to my car and there under the awning, attached to the fellowship hall where the luncheon was being held, was the little old ladies’ blue Oldsmobile……
Covered in Confederate Flag stickers!
at 8:13 pm
Oh heavens!!!! How hilarious!!!!
love ya
shelley
at 10:34 pm
You should have taken the keys out of their car and hid them in the ficus tree or the green bean caserole
at 8:39 am
They must have come down 105 from Cut-N-Shoot.
at 4:30 pm
the irony of this cracks me up. reminds me of the gun toting granny in “to kill a mockingbird”.
reminds me of my deep south roots. it was insane when georgia removed the confederate emblem from the state flag. this was less than 10 years ago! I remember all of the protests, bumper stickers, and “heritage” junk.