Tuesday, October 26, 2021

HALLOWEEN HOOLIGANS

 

My mother was born in 1896. She, her older sister and their parents lived in West Brattleboro, Vt. Also living there, just two houses down from theirs, was my Grandmother’s sister, my great Aunt Emma. She was the epitome of the frugal New Englander. She lived a very simple life and every expenditure, no matter how small, was carefully itemized in her diary. Her life was spartan to say the least.

However Aunt Emma had one passion. She had lovingly planted and cared for the award winning rose bushes that took up most of her small front lawn. As you can imagine Aunt Emma was the perfect target for a bunch of rowdy boys on Halloween night. The story goes that the morning after Halloween Aunt Emma walked out front to find that her beloved rose bushes had been completely smothered in toilet paper.

Was Aunt Emma angry? That was probably her first reaction but then her frugality took over. She got a wooden dowel and preceded to wind the paper around it. The boys had used at least three rolls to cover her foliage so she had a huge ball when she was done…enough to last a long time and it was FREE!

I’m sure this wasn’t the result that the little Halloween Hooligans were looking for but it must have made the day for Aunt Emma.


6 Comments:

Blogger Arkansas Patti said...

Oh how funny:) Did not see that coming. That is making lemonade out of lemons.

2:41 PM  
Blogger Anvilcloud said...

Good for Aunt Emma. :)

4:31 AM  
Blogger troutbirder said...

BEING A HIG SCHOOL TEACHER i GO BOMBE AFTER EVER HOMECOMING GAME. I SHOULD HAVE FOLLOWED AUNT EMMA EXAMPLE....lOVE YOU GINNIE. :) RAY

5:56 AM  
Blogger Beatrice P. Boyd said...

Your Aunt Emma was very thrifty and wise to roll up that TP, Ginnie. Good for her in being able to turn a prank into something useful.

1:12 PM  
Blogger David M. Gascoigne, said...

I think the world could use more Aunt Emmas.

4:02 PM  
Blogger Joared said...

Waste not!

1:57 PM  

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