Your three words, my little story.

Your three words, my little story: Gwyn D’s words

/ Jim McDonald / 11 Comments

Your three words, my little story
Gwyn D’s words: carousel, happenstance & audacious

 

Late Wednesday evening, Gwyn was walking into the Sloan coffee shop, when she noticed a very attractive fella sitting outside with his dog. They nodded and smiled at each other, before she opened the door and ushered her niece inside.

 

By HAPPENSTANCE Thursday she was sitting at the same table with her niece, while he walked in with his dog. This time he asked her, “Do you want a refill?”

 

“No thank you, maybe tomorrow.” She said with a cute little grin.

 

“Ok! Looking forward to it”

 

Friday they met in line, she still had her niece, but he had a young boy with him. He said, “How about tomorrow we meet at the carnival. Same time, somewhere around the CAROUSEL?”

 

“How AUDACIOUS of you!” But she was trying to figure out a way to ask him something similar anyway. “With the kids right?”

 

“Oh yeah!”

 

“Make it seven and you have a deal. By the way, don’t you owe me a coffee?”

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My cute little grand son Liam. So proud of him!

Your three words, my little story: Butch’s words (true story)

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Your three words, my little story
Butch’s words: football, Tennessee & Vols (true story)

 

Butch has lived most of his life between Maryland and TENNESSEE and is an avid FOOTBALL fan. He roots for the Washington Redskins and his college team is the Tennessee Volunteers.

 

He has always been interested Davey Crockett, since Crockett was born in eastern Tennessee in 1786.

 

Crockett led a band of twelve, known as the ‘Tennessee Mounted Volunteers’ and later joined up with Sam Houston. During the battle of the Alamo, Houston led an Army of Tennessee Volunteers fighting for the independence of Texas.

 

Crockett died at the Alamo on March 6th 1836 at the age of forty nine. Because of him, his men and the rest of Houston’s army, Tennessee became known as the ‘Volunteer State’. Tennessee has always answered the call. That’s why their college team is called the Tennessee VOLS, short for volunteers.

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My Tennessee family. Mom and dad are in this picture too and so is Butch.

Your three words, my little story: Collin’s words

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Your three words, my little story

Collin’s words: car, salt & fish

 

Collin’s CAR was good on gas, but not good in the snow. So he didn’t really want to go shopping, but he forgot to get bread, milk and toilet paper.

 

As soon as he pulled out of his long gravel driveway, he realized this was a mistake. The two lane blacktop hadn’t been plowed or driven on yet, so he tried to take his half of the road right in the middle.

 

He pulled up to the IGA and not a car or customer was there. He was actually afraid to pull into the parking lot, but it was that or keep on driving to Sloan.

 

He made the turn and headed home. It took him two hours to make a thirty minute drive. When he pulled up to his house he noticed the lights were off. First thing he thought of was the FISH in the freezer.

 

Colin piled some split oak in the fireplace and lit it up. He stood at the freezer door trying to remember exactly where the perch was at, so he could pull two out and quickly shut the door. However he pulled out two bass, which was fine. He then thawed them out and seasoned them with SALT and pepper and swung them over the fire.

 

Your three words, my little story: Nora’s words (true story)

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Your three words, my little story
Nora’s words: opsimath, hypermnesia & malapropism (true story)

 

Four good friends wanted to quit smoking, so they decided to try hypnosis. Jim and Raymond haven’t smoked since, but Bruce and Christina smoked before they got to their cars.

 

When Jim quit, he gained interest in other areas. He became an OPSIMATH person. However, he wouldn’t have known what that meant, except when he got hypnotized he got HYPERMNESIA. Hypermnesia is the opposite of amnesia, which means he remembers things he normally wouldn’t.

 

He majored in English and learned enough to get by but, he still had problems with MALAPROPISM. Sometimes he used a word, that sounded correct for the sentence, but wasn’t close. He needs to learn a lot more but, as of yet, he hasn’t given up.

Your three words, my little story: Gary’s 2nd set

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Your three words, my little story
Gary’s 2nd set: consanguineous, misogynistic and deciduous.

 

All the DECIDUOUS flora will be in hibernation later in the month. That’s one of the reasons why the organizers, thought the colorful fall would be a good time for the reunion. It’s refreshing, picturesque and a bargain to rent the park out in the off season.

 

Most of the family didn’t believe that Jim was MISOGYNISTIC like the rest of the men in their CONSANGUINEOUS family tree. However, Jim, Ernie and Carolyn knew different. Ernie was proud to have a cousin with that many notches on his belt, while Carolyn knew Jim’s morals had changed when he got sober.

 

Parts of Jim missed having a different woman every week, sometimes every night. Then he looks at family and friends, that are growing old and grey together, with their first and only love. Something he never had was a history with that special someone. He often thinks that life would have outweighed all those happy endings.