I guess the funniest an most magical Christmas I can remember was in 1962,it was late Christmas eve an daddy had just came in with a bucket of coal when he said that he had just seen the strangest thing down the street. It was a blinking red light ,going from side to side in the street. and he could hear someone shouting ,ho ho hold turn right,ho ho hold turn left. Now I was only seven year old but I had enough sense to know that only reindeer had red noses an saney claws at least thats what I called him could say ho ho ho anyway he wanted, I run out barefooted as a possum out onto the edge of the porch my feet sunk up to my ankles in four inches of snow, but that didnt matter, there it was ,I could just make it out, coming up the road was a red nosed deer pulling what looked like a sleigh, an it was jumping from side to side. I figured it was going from house to house when I heard it say ho ho ho go straight ., I hurried back into the house an hit the bed ,covered my head cause old saney was on his way to my house. Early Christmas morning I went in the living room the tree was lit and they was presents under it to. old saney done stopped by. over on the door hung my stocking full of peanuts chewing gum an a apple. I went out the door looking for sled tracks but only seen some tire tracks heading down the street. Mommy was up cooking her part of grannys famous Christmas dinner. After a few hours when mommy was done cooking an daddy had finished off one or two pots of coffee me an my little sister had made a mess in the floor with wrapping paper, it was time to load up an go to Grannys for dinner. Had to be there soon in order to get a parking place. The food fixed there on Christmas day was the high light of the season, along with the help of my Aunts and cousins bringing their dishes, an thats a story all to itself. After dinner the women sit in the kitchen an caught up with their stories the men took up camp in the living room, sitting around a TV while dosing off, us youngens were put off in the screened in back porch. Then there was this knock at the door ,it was my Uncle Taylor an Aunt Lena, as soon as taylor came in the door he looked at daddy an said bill, sure glad you could fix the gears in my car last night or I would have to back all the way home. Daddy ask him how did he make it as far as he did. Uncle Taylor said, well I put the old lady lena in the trunk with the lid up and she guided me by my tail light, ever time I would veer off she would yeah out whoa whoa whoa go left, whoa whoa whoa go right ,now straight ahead. .....This my friends is a true story, an it really did happen this way, about a six year old youngen that got to see saney claws for the first time ,backing up the street in a fifty one Chevy coup stuck in reverse..... Wishing every one a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 03:40:24 +0000
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