Rabbit Tobacco and Esperanza --->
Patsy: He just stood up and walked out without saying another word. (This is after Patsy has told him she knows weeds are rabbit tobacco.)
Patsy: He had no sooner walked out when the girl who cleans up around here came to my table. She said, "I saw you talking with Tom Willson, you hoe?" I told her, "No, I don't hoe but see Tom going out the door, he has lots of weeds, and I bet he has lots of hoes, too, so if you catch him, he might loan you one."
Melba: Did she go after him?
Patsy: She surely did, and I saw her buying some of his weeds, too. You'd think that if she had to hoe weeds, she wouldn't want to buy more weeds.
Melba: Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Patsy: If you think that doesn't make any sense, you should have been outside on the porch of Adamson with me yesterday afternoon. I was sitting in the rocking chairs out front when this girl came up the steps and sat down with me. She had some mail in her hand. She opened one of her letters, read it, and started laughing so hard. She looked over at me and said, "My boyfriend is in Florida and he sent me this card. It is the funniest thing I've ever read." Then, she handed it to me and said, "Read this!" I took the card and it was a pretty card. On the front, it had a picture of a sandy white beach, the blue ocean, and a ship on the ocean and it read, "Dont' watch for the shrimp boats." Then I opened the card and inside, it read, "Because I'm coming home with the crabs."
Melba: What did that mean?
Patsy: it made absolutely no sense to me. I couldn't tell what it meant. I laughed though, because I didn't want to hurt her feelings!!
(to be continued) These stories are based on true experiences.
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