How Sad
Mrs. Beulah GriffisThe lady above was one of our neighbors many years ago when I was a kid. She and her husband ran a grocery store where we bought most of our groceries. She told us this story after it happened.
There was a family who lived near us who had a son who happened to be the bad man of the neighborhood. His parents were very nice people and seemed to be respectable.
However, this young man got a girl pregnant. The baby died when it was born. The lady above graciously offered to drive the man and girl to the funeral since they had no car.
They were on the way to the funeral and the girl said she was thirsty and she wanted to stop and get a popsicle. So the lady stopped at a store and the girl and the young man got out and went in and bought popsicles--can you imagine?--on the way to her baby's funeral!
Sure it is hot in Texas and I am sure the girl might have been very thirsty but she could have asked for just water. Popsicles seemed a little frivolous at such a time!
I do not remember the girl's age but she was old enough to have a little more integrity than that! And the young man was plenty old enough to act better. She probably was not capable of caring for a baby so maybe it was a blessing in disguise.
posted by kyra lafain @ 10/31/2010 12:30:00 PM
1 Comments:
It seems there is a lot of that kind of disregard for decorum today as well. In fact, I daresay there's even more of it today than there was back then.
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