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A moratorium was now placed on church potlucks.
The last one caused a flash fire when the Barbecue Pit exploded, sending
miscellaneous pork bits and ribs, along with Bob’s Secret Ingredient
(lots of whiskey) flaming sauce, flying over to Old Miz Guthrie’s tiny old house.
Old Miz Guthrie heard screaming coming her way,
and then smelled the barbeque fire on her roof.
“Oh, Lordy, Lordy! My house ‘s
afire!” As fast as a squirrel on
a live wire, she scampered out the door, wringing her hands while the fire
department extinguished the barbecue flickers of flame.
No damage done, Old Miz Guthrie thanked everyone,
shushing them away, and hurried back inside.
Looking around at her immaculate, nicely decorated home, she
raced down the steps to her basement, which was packed with fire-proof chests of
gold coins, jewelry (oh, how she love nice jewelry), and packs of one-hundred bills.
Unbeknownst to the community, Old Miz Guthrie was
quite a spendthrift made possible by her late husband’s last bank
robbery in 1955 in Chicago. I better get outta this town.
The next day her brother Raffert showed up at
night with a big van and they moved everything from the basement during the big
school dance. Just before she closed the
front door, Old Miz Guthrie turned the cooker on high, with bright flames crawling
to a dishtowel.
The town mourned for her. Damned BBQ sauce.
This is a Wed. Words from 2015, and it was different. I hope you can enjoy. It was created by Delores, who has given up computers, River has taken up the slack, but might like to have someone else to share this. Are that person??
love it love it. good thing the stuff in the basement was still there to move it.. now I am pondering just where they moved it all...
ReplyDeleteI would hope the brother has some place lined up for such.
DeleteOld Miz Guthrie was smart to get her ill-gotten gains out of there. And with such a fortunate set of circumstances. Maybe she would be able to spend some now. Great story!
ReplyDeleteI would hope she would take a long trip, buy some stuff.
DeleteOld Miz Guthrie is a sly one, for sure. Who'd have guessed about that stash? Very creative, Susan!
ReplyDeleteExactly. Good thing she left the town before it did get found. Matter of time.
DeleteWell, that took a turn...
ReplyDeleteThe words dictated something odd.
DeleteThere's more to her than meets the casual eye.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Chicago 1933, robberies...I figure she was the driver.
DeleteI wish I had a basement with items like those. Basements aren't a thing here in Australia.
ReplyDeleteHere in earthquake California, basements are off the list.
DeleteI love this little story. It put a big smile on my face this morning, thank you.
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