My Daddy was a short Man about 5' 9" or maybe 5'10" anyhow he was 52 inches around the Waist, in other words he had a big Belly, the reason was he liked to Eat, his Pants all had a Black place in Front from the Stirring Wheel of the Car rubbing his Belly, he would wear an old Felt Hat that he probably bought to wear to Church once upon a time, but Ya'll all know how they look after several years of every day wearing, well that is the way his looked.
after I got Married and moved to Russellville, every Year when the Christmas Season was approaching the City would start a S.T.I.R Program, and that stood for Save Trade In Russellville, for every dollar you spent the Merchants would give you a Ticket with a lot of Numbers on it and Christmas Eve they would have the Drawing and they would give away a new Car.
The Ford Dealer usually supplied the New Car to be given away, strangely enough the Ford Dealers Name was Ford Grissom, well this went on for several Years and finally they had a Drawing and they gave out the winning Number and it seemed like it took forever for somebodyto find the Ticket and claim the Car, people really had a lot of Tickets by the final Drawing, finally somebody hollered that they had it and came up to claim it and you guessed it, Ford Grissom the Ford Dealer won the Car.
Boy everybody was mad, and I think that that was about the last drawing they held Downtown, Wal-Mart came to Russellville and everybody loves them to Death, they are about the highest place around to buy Groceries but I go up there and buy mine because they have them little Buggys you can ride and a Basket on it and I get me one of them because I can't stand up very long.
well they had built a Four Lane By-Pass around Russellville Years ago and Russellville slowly dried up and there was nothing but a bunch of empty Stores Downtown because every body moved out on the Four Lane, then the Mexicans moved in, now they (the Mexicans) have several Stores Down town and what they didn't open as Stores they rented them to start a Church in, Russellville went Wet in the last Election, but we don't have to worry about anybody having a Liquor Store Downtown because you can't have one in so many feet of a Church and there is a Church on about every Corner.
I want to go back a litttle ways, one Day when they were having all the big Crowds for Christmas Shopping my Daddy came to town, he probably had on a pair of Overalls and that Hat and he said that he was Walking down the Sidewalk and there was lots of People around, and he met a man that looked as bad as he did and he said that just as the man got even with him, he passed the Gas, and my daddy said lots of People heard it, then the old man took two or three steps and stopped and turned around and put his Hands on both Hips and looked at him just like he was disgusted to death, you see he laid it on my Daddy like he was sorry and not fit to be around people, of course my Daddy just kept Walking but I thought that was a pretty good one.
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