<TITLE>28. Par 89-91</TITLE>L-89 I was going down the street. See, if I remembered, I said, "Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon."
Somebody said, "Hello, Billy."
I said, "Hello, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon."
And I passed Orville Spawn, he said, "Billy," said, "over on the pier out there, perch is biting that long," said, "oh, you," said, "you ought to see it."
And I said, "Sure enough, Orville?"
And I got talking to him, and I forgot what it was. And so I went down; I knowed they had socks at the ten cent store. So I knowed the girl that worked there, and I went down there and I said, Thelma come up and I said, "Hi, Thelma."
And she said, "Hi, Brother Bill." Said, "What do you want?"
And I said, "Hope wants a pair of socks."
And she said, "Why, Hope don't want socks."
And I said, "Yes, she does, she wants a pair."
Said, "She won't wear socks."
I said, "She does; she wants them full style. That thing, you know, that's got that little thing in the back of it, you know. And then," I said, "she wants it full style."
And she said...

L-90 Well, that's wrong; that ain't full... What is that? Fashion, Yeah, right. I don't know much about them things, so, and I--I said, "She wants that kind."
And she said, "Well, them's stockings."
And I said, "Oh, all right."
Said, "What kind you want?"
And after I done been so ignorant, I--I hated to show more of it, so I--I said, "Well, what kind you got?"
She said, "We got anywhere from rayon."
I said, "That's what she wants." I never heard the two different kinds; they all sound the same to me. And so I said, "That's the kind I want."
She said, "Hope want rayon stoc..."
I said, "Yes, ma'am."
And they only cost about twenty cents a pair, something like that. She got it; I said, "Give me two pair if that's all they are." So she give me two pair of them. And so I went home. You know how you have to crow to your wife when you got a bargain, you know. And I said, "Oh, I thought I'd tell you, it's--just--just--just..." I said, "I'm Abraham's son," you know, going on to her. I said, "You women go and ribbon shop all day for bargains, and I go downtown, buy two pair of socks, have enough left over to buy a third pair if I wanted to. Had money left over, just two pair. You all shop in Louisville." I said, "Just, you know, you have to be Yiddish, like me, you know." Just going on like that.
And she said, "Did you get rayon?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am!" They all sound just the same to me.

L-91 So I thought it was something funny when she got to Fort Wayne, she had to get another pair of stockings. But she told me; she said, there in her dying hour; she said, "Bill, them was for an older woman; I give them to your mother." She said, "That," she said, "I kept that from you, 'cause I didn't want to hurt your feelings, that you got."
Oh, my, you don't know how that made me feel then. And I said, "Bless your heart, honey."
And she said, "Now, promise me will you, that you'll not..."
I said, "I don't..."
She looked up, she said, "I'm going, Bill."
And I said, "Are you, honey?"
She said, "Yes."
I said, "Sweetheart, when you go..."


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