Being a little more experienced than the rest, I knew that the old lady had spiked the cake with weed. Anyway, to be sure, I asked her. When she nodded her head, you should have seen all their faces.
Bob was the only one to put up a fuss. But everybody else was like, "Oh, what the hell, might as well enjoy it." Later, even Bob came around.
We were all having a good time but Aunt Wanda was a riot. I've never seen her like that before or since. She kept asking Tommy Jo's boyfriend to come out on the porch and tell her about the stars. Tommy Jo was too tickled to mind but Wanda's husband seemed to think they ought to stay inside.
Anyway, we were all in good moods except for the old lady. There she sat, sober as a judge, rocking away and staring at us.
So then the old lady gets out of her chair and walks up to the front of the room, just like she was still teaching school and says. "I want everyone's attention please." Christ, it was like she thought we were all in the third grade again. That's when I started to get a little freaked out.
"What if the b*tch has us drugged so some guys waiting in a truck down the block can come steal our livers?"
Next she starts talking a bunch of stuff about wanting to know why we are the way we are. Why do we believe every wild story Rush Limbaugh throws at us?
I didn't get all of it because, to tell the truth I was thinking about putting a move on Tommy Jo while her boyfriend was out on the porch with Aunt Wanda.
Then it dawned on me. The old lady's a fan of Obama. Can you imagine, I mean how she managed to keep something like that secret? But I didn't hold it against her cause I kind of like the guy myself.
She had to stop at that point because the room was emptying out onto the porch. Then, like I followed then outside and there sits Ray in the porch swing with Aunt Wanda on his lap. I mean I swallowed my cud, but Marvin Lynn thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen."
On and on, she keeps asking everyone questions. Like, "why do you believe everything you hear even when you know there's no way it makes any sense."
Mostly, she got giggles, but I remember Aunt Molly did answer her one time."
"Listen Ms T we're god-fearing, respectable folks and we make our own way in the world and pay our own bills. Not to put too fine a point on it but there's some in this country that don't think that way."
"I guess you're talking about black people?"
While all this was going on, Will had gotten himself horizontal by the end of the porch and was telling all he knew about astronomy. He was just about done when he decided to answer Ms T's question.
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