My aunt is wonderful.
WONDERFUL! She’s also blond. She’s blond to the bone, and that may be the
only reason she could put up with all of us (me, my sister and my three
cousins), or maybe the only reason we didn’t drive her completely crazy.
She’s also
fun! Not just now, but as long as –I-
can remember.
My aunt has
had a successful business for decades.
Gymnastics. It might be time for
her to throw in the torch, but in my younger days she was the reason I could do
a summersault, cartwheel, backbend...
At my
wedding she dug out some pots and pans with wooden spoons. She put all the children in a parade and they
had to sing and bang those pots. It
turned a boring afternoon into fun for the kids. Oh, and she made sure they blew bubbles
instead of throwing rice. She forgot the
bubbles on our first walk up the aisle, so we had to go back and do it again so
the kids could blow their bubbles.
Every time I get to visit she still has
games out the galore. She turns it into
fighting time for the bathroom – at our ages, laughing can be disturbing, and
we do regularly laugh and run to the bathroom, hoping for the best.
After all
that, the memory stuck in my head finally can come out of my fingers.
My aunt
took my cousins to the bus stop for school decades ago. They’d all had breakfast, dressed in uniforms
and were taken to go to school. I have
to mention this was in Ohio
during the winter. Yes, major snow.
An hour or so
later they came back home; cold, wet and hungry after trudging through the
snow. They thought they missed the bus.
It was
Saturday.
TPC Contributing Writer
A jack of all trades, Ms. Tuggle has been a Covington resident since the late 70’s. She's been a K-Mart cashier, cabinet builder, vet tech, office manager for a beef cattle ranch and water well company (where she was able to hold benefits for D.A.R.E. and Scouts), a court reporter, business manager, assistant at a private investigation firm, legal assistant, convenience store clerk, landscaper and elementary school substitute teacher. Her greatest pleasure is being a wife, mother and grandmother. Her stories are all real, and all names will be withheld to protect the innocent, and also maybe the guilty, depending on the crime & the Statute of Limitations.
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