> > That is so touching! Especially the rigged contest so you can win a cowboy > outfit.
I very much enjoyed your post. Pauline I don't think you are strange at all. But if some people think otherwise, then I am too and it does not bother me one bit. ;-) > <<<My family and friends often ask me why a fifty-nine year old retired > teacher spends so much time watching a corny old television show like the > Andy Griffith Show. They want to know what I see that they don?t. So I > tell them: > > When I see Opie and Andy sitting out on the porch having one of their > man-to-man talks, I see the father I never had. When I see Ellie Walker > behind the soda fountain at Walker?s Drug store, I see Mr. And Mrs. Weix > behind the soda fountain of the drugstore that I frequented as a young > boy. When I see Opie and his friends frolicking through Crouch?s Woods and > fishing at Meyer?s Lake, I see my brothers and me fishing at the old Mill > Pond and playing out in Rau?s Woods. When I see Floyd cutting hair and > talking to the town cronies, I see myself sitting in Virk?s Barbershop and I > am listening to the men folk telling their hunting and fishing stories while > I read comic books and enjoy the smells of the witch hazel and other manly > scents. Or when I see Miss Crump encouraging Opie to go outside to play > football, I see Mr. Eiden, my seventh grade basketball coach, laughing and > encouraging us after we just lost a basketball game by a score of > 88-0. After all, it was just a game back then. And when I see good old Mr. > Foley working in his little grocery store on Mayberry?s Main Street, I > remember Mr. Krueger who rigged a contest in his grocery store in order for > a little boy to win a beautiful new cowboy outfit because his parents didn?t > have any money to buy one. That little boy happened to be me. > > When I see Andy and Barney welcoming Otis each Friday night and treating > him with dignity, I recall very vividly our small town police officer that > would follow my dad home when he had a snootful, to make sure he got home > safely to his anxious and awaiting family. > > These are just some of the things I see when I watch the Andy Griffith > Show. And I see much more. For you see, I was very fortunate to have grown > up in a very small town during a wonderful time when us kids were safe and > secure knowing that we could roam around town, just like little Leon and > Opie, and we could really get to know all those wonderful people who are no > longer there. > > Well, maybe I am a little strange, but so what. In this day and age, who > cares? I am going to grab on to all the memories that I can find, and I am > going to cherish them forever. > > Kenneth G. Anderson>>> > _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
