Even though the occasion of Bobo and Inez’s marriage preceeded my birth by a few days, Mother has told me the story so often, I feel I was there. Bobo showed up with his bride just hours after they married. No doubt, he was proud of her. He was twenty-seven; she, fifteen and visibly pregnant. Now, he’d be arrested. Quite a buxom lass, she was lovely. Mother was surprised they’d dropped by for a social call so soon after the wedding, since she’d only met Bobo once. She learned a lot in the next few minutes, as Bobo announced they’d be spending the next few days. “We just run off. Inez’s mama was pretty hot ’bout the baby. I reckon she’ll let me fix up Granny Ada’s old house on her place once she finds out we married. I can pull some boards off that ol’ barn o’ hearn ‘n it ain’t gonna cost her nuthin but a few nails and some wire to cover the winders. We jist need a place to stay till we git ‘er cooled off. She ain’t gonna let this here gran’baby do without.”
Daddy was fine with that. They had plenty of room. Mother’s baby might not come for a few days. Phyllis still slept in their room in the baby bed. Bobo and Inez got the fold-out couch in the minute living room. The tiny three-room house was cozy. Since Mother was overdue to give birth, I don’t think the sounds of noisy sex coming from hers and Daddy’s bedroom were likely to have disturbed the guests, considering her feelings, at the time. From what Mother said, they probably could’nt have heard them anyway, even if they’d invited the neighbors in for an orgy. The walls were like paper. Bobo and Inez seemed enthusiastically, happy in their marriage.
Mother dreaded facing them the morning after. Daddy had gone to work out the back door to give them privacy. When they came out to breakfast, Bobo laughed and said, “Inez looked and looked, but she can’t find her buzzeer(hick for brassiere). Ha! Ha! Ha! Where’d y’all hide it?”
Mother was mortified he even thought they was might have been sneaking around anywhere the cavorting newlweds. “I don’t know anything about it. I know Bill never moved. Once he goes to sleep, he’s dead to the world. I’ll help Inez hunt it.” They tore the living room up, moving all the furniture. The search was fruitless. Inez went braless for the next two or three days, years ahead of the trend. Years later, when the living room was remodeled, the impressive brassiere was found between the walls. Apparently, a lecherous rat had paid them a visit during the night.
to be continued.
You’ve got an endless well of stories. They just get better and better, if that’s possible. Which it seems it is 🙂
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Thanks so much.
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I simply love the way you tell this story so fresh from life!!!
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We are surrounded by great stories all day, every day!
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” till we git ‘er cooled off.” Have to find a way to use this one, somehow.
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It’s a good one.
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I wonder where you can take the stories you write?…. perhaps the wonderbra, in a way was taken away by bugs… jejejejee!
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Great idea!
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Poor Inez. I’ll bet she missed that bra.
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You can bet Bobo wouldn’t be buying her many.
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Poor girl. She was too young to have any sense. My parents married young, as did my sister and my niece, but the women in my family are generally born with a heap of common sense.
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That’s a good thing. Hormones are hell!
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Tell me about it. I wish someone had warned me that menopause was like puberty in reverse!
And I thought I’d be gently fanning myself during hot flashes …
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Joke was on you, wasn’t it!
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Love how you capture the language; adds so much to the piece. ☺
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Glad you enjoy it.
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I feel like a good girl reading a smut novel!
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Ha! Ha!
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Oh my!!! Hahaha!!! Wonder what they are up to now…
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Don’t know.
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😀 😀 😀 Bobo sure is a colorful character and the buzzeer took on a life of its own. What luck. Who knew?
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He didn’t seem to worry a lot.
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I had a feeling he didn’t. 🙂
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Just posted #3
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I did read it sometime this afternoon.
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