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Friday - An Old Maid's Daugher
Nov. 10th, 2006 01:32 pmToday on my drive into work, I was thinking about a joke my mother used to tell people about her plans never to marry, and how I didn't realize how shocking her words were to those around her until I was much older.
"I told everyone that I was going to be an old maid," she said, "and that I planned to raise all my kids to be old maids, too."
These words may be only mildly amusing to people born in the late 20th century, but hearing them from a Baptist girl from a small Texas in the late 1940's and early 1950's must have raised the eyebrows of her friends and family and even produced a gasp or two.
( Quack Shack, baby, Quack Shack )
"I told everyone that I was going to be an old maid," she said, "and that I planned to raise all my kids to be old maids, too."
These words may be only mildly amusing to people born in the late 20th century, but hearing them from a Baptist girl from a small Texas in the late 1940's and early 1950's must have raised the eyebrows of her friends and family and even produced a gasp or two.
( Quack Shack, baby, Quack Shack )
