Grandmother White was a sight! That’s what we called someone who was always “up to something.” And THAT, she WAS!
Once, when she was a young girl, she decided to play a prank on one of the neighbors who she knew was fond of moonshine. Lemuel. (I need to confirm his name.)
If you lived in the New Georgia community before the 1970s, you knew a tramp was a scary, homeless person who walked up and down the roads in neighboring communities looking for something to eat, something to steal or plain ole trouble.
So Grandmother dressed to look like a tramp, and after kkbodark, grabbed the special prop she’d already prepared, and headed down the road.
She got to the Lemuel’s house and knocked. When he came to the door, she stepped back from the porch light and, disguising her voice, said, “Want a little ‘shine tonight? I got some good stuff!”
Lemuel immediately got ready to dicker, and said, “Well, I don’t know fer sure unless I KNOW fer sure it’s good. Lemme git a lil swig first.”
Grandma knew that’s what he’d say so she leaned in close enough to hand him the jug. Somehow, Grandmother managed not to burst out laughing.
Lemuel pulled the cork, put the jug on his shoulder and turned his head to it for what he thought would be a good, long “drank.”
As soon as the kerosene hit his lips, he started sputtering, spitting and rubbing his mouth. He yelled, “Eunice Thompson! Git outta here right now and don’t you dare come back! I’m gonna tell yore pa what you done, and I mean it!”
It was no coincidence that he figured out immediately who the prankster was!
Grandmother: 1031.
Everybody else: 0
Grandmother was a godly woman, kind, sweet as honey with a sharp wit active till the day she passed.
