October 18, 2010
Baby’s First Memories
I like it that the Tom Sale known as Pinky Diablo invited me to play Pinky Diablo’s Luddite Facebook App Daily Game. All’s he asked me to do was to list my first ten memories. So I just listed what I thought of as fast as I could.
1. The Greek waiter at The Torch of Acropolis (Davis Avenue, Dallas, Texas) gave me a lump of sugar. I sucked it as I tumbled into bed.
2. An itty-bitty turtle was there on my pillow one night. And then it wasn’t.
3. The Bingo ladies all wore dresses with figured prints and sat at card tables.
4. I loved Prince Chicky, but I put him down in the road, where a car shattered him into yellow plastic splinters.
5. Lionel Barrymore’s voice came out of the record player, and he said “rhododendrons.” He said that they shone like diamonds.
6. I hollered, “Hey, fattie!” at Joanie, and my mother shamed me.
7. The dog’s nails clicked on the hardwood floor, and that scared me even though I loved him.
8. Aunt Phyllis called me a “little dear,” and I kicked her shin.
9. At the nursery school, they dished out limp, over-cooked carrots, and I cried.
10. I looked up into the sky and saw seven friendly faces smiling down on me.
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If your dog is tapdancing it’s time for a nail-trim.
That dog is long dead, Dave.
Was the turtle real? Could the seven faces have been the giants, visiting from Wichita Falls?
The turtle, I am now convinced, was not real. The seven faces, however, could have been those of the Wichita Falls giants.
It probably wouldn’t do you much good to trim his nails at this point.
Tom started the game with a list of ten of his own early memories. I especially like his story of playing in the yard of a family friend’s house and crawling inside through the dog door only to discover that he had crawled into the wrong house.
Tom did not say whether or not his nails clicked on the floor of the wrong house.
Poor Prince Chicky.
“Good night, sweet chicky.”
“Alas, poor Chicky. I knew him, Lauren.”
Sheila, you are the first person to make me laugh out loud today. Gracias.
De nada, Lauren.