|
From Janice Hawthorne: Ralph's Thirsty Years ago when Lawrence & LaVerne Tayar were a young married couple with a new baby and were struggling financially to get by, a visiting and rather thirsty Ralph Tayar was heard to remark: "That Lawrence will go out and buy a bag of groceries when there's not a drop of liquor in the house!" A strange remark coming from a certified grocer. 1931? Who's Larry? Later on, Lawrence's new son-in-law, Jerry Hawthorne, was once granted the privilege of accompanying Lawrence to the local cafe where he went to get coffee on a regular basis. There was a new and attractive waitress at the cafe, and she asked my Dad what his name was. He said: "My name is Lawrence, but my friends call me Larry." Larry?? Now I ask you, does anyone remember anyone ever calling my Dad Larry? 1954? Horizontal Rain Grace Coke once told me that having spent most of her young life in Oklahoma and Kansas where the wind blows swiftly down the plains, she was 35 years old before she realized that rain came down from the sky. She always thought rain was horizontal. 1953? Spaghetti Dinner I once made spaghetti for our family dinner. Everyone was seated at the table ready to eat as I carried the spaghetti to the table on a big platter. Somehow I tipped the platter & the entire meal slid quietly to the floor, splattering tomato sauce everywhere. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but we all laughed & ended up having tuna sandwiches for dinner. Burning Questions Why were Bette and Grace eating chocolate pie off the floor? Isn't there a story about Jeffee dumping Shirley Tayar's birthday cake on the floor? Mark scooped apple pie off Rodene's kitchen floor and proclaimed it clean enough to scarf it up. And is there a family tendency to dump food on the floor? Has Rodene been known to cook with a glass of water on her head? Did anyone see Bob Tayar dance by the pool with a glass of water on his head? And why was Paula Cooper locked in her garage naked? |
|
Family Stories and Trivia |
|
|