Melba and Wanda - Part 1
 

Many years ago on a Friday afternoon I drove my Volkswagen camper to a covered flea market pavilion about 10 miles from my home and unloaded the fishing and camping wares I hoped to sell some of over the weekend when the flea market was open. Then I drove a couple of miles to a rural honky-tonk that served food to eat a bite before returning to the pavilion to sleep in my camper until the next morning when I would set up the displays of my wares. I had finished eating and was watching some customers playing pool and others playing the rage at that time, Kurtköy Escort PAC MAN, while enjoying an after dinner adult beverage. Two ladies walked in, looked the crowd over, and came up to where I was seated. I noticed that the younger of the two walked with a shuffling gait, that her head nodded a bit from side to side, and that she seemed to always have a smirk-like smile on her face. When she later spoke her words were slightly slurred. I later learned that she suffered from cerebral palsy. The older of the two spoke Kurtköy Escort Bayan to me saying, "Where have you been all of my life?" I replied by saying, "I don't know. I don't think we've ever met. Am I supposed to know you?" She responded by saying, "No, we've never met before, but I think we should have met long ago. My name is Melba and my daughter's name is Wanda. May we sit with you?" I replied, "Sure, if you want to, why not?", and they sat down at my table with Melba on one side of me and Wanda on the other Escort Kadıköy side. Then we began a conversation about who we were, what we did, and where we lived. It turned out that Melba and Wanda lived on the shore of the same lake I did only a couple of miles from my home but down a different dirt road. Melba told me that her first husband had been murdered many years ago in the little country store he owned in the southern part of the state. She then moved to this area and eventually married the head video photographer at the most popular TV station in the capitol city, and that the man who was governor at the time insisted that her husband be the one to make videos of him for the station. Her second husband had died a few years earlier. Somewhere along the way Melba had met Wanda whose parents had been killed in an automobile accident.