On a recent visit to Mumsy, who is 93 years old, she told us a little detail of life in the past. Elner and Marie were close relatives who lived nearby, and once a week or so, they would take a trip to the mall. This was a grand affair, of course. Marie and Elner made sandwiches and filled a cooler. Mumsy, who is a tiny little lady, would drive them across town. At the mall, after a few hours of wandering and wondering at all of the marvels displayed therein, they might stop for lunch at a bench or a table. While they took out their plastic wrapped sandwiches and thermoses, Mumsy (being a little more hip to the ways of the world) generally bought herself a hamburger or a hot dog. And then I picture them quite happily piling back into the large American car. Perhaps Elner carried the cooler. And they had conversation fodder to last them until the next time.
Maybe.
BAH said I would change this story, putting it through my own filter. Clearly, I have. But isn't it nice to think of the mall as being a place worthy of bringing a cooler?
that sounds like a story my Aunt Ethel might have told - I discovered her in the 1990s in Wisconsin. I lived there for 2 years and just happened to move to the town where my grandmother's mother was from. And here is this great grand aunt of mine - with wonderful stories like this.
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