A Blast From the Past!

While talking to my mom on the telephone this afternoon, my dad had come back from the local pharmacy, and insisted that he talk to me.

Apparently while returning an item Dad had bought, he had to give his full name. The girl looked at his name and said, "Do you have a daughter named Laurie?" He told her that he did. She said, "Did you all live in __________ at one time?" He said, "Yes, we did."

She told him that I had been in her kindergarten class way back when. Now this is over 40 years ago. I didn't remember her name, but I did get my yearbook out and when I looked at the picture, I immediately remembered this girl.


All I Really Need to Know-Kindergarten

She was probably the kindest girl in the entire class. Well, she hasn't changed. I had to go to the pharmacy also for some things, so I just made my trip today instead of tomorrow.

We got laughing and giggling about those Kindergarten days, like the time I cried a river when someone had exchanged my really nice, perfect crayons for their old broken, worn-down box of crayons.

Or the time that my favorite tea set was stolen out of my cubby after my mama had warned me 500 times not to take that tea set to school. I disobeyed and snuck it into school and you betcha, someone snagged it. I can only remember crying two times in Kindergarten and those were the two times.

We reminisced about the time that Eddie stood on the bottom of the library stool while this other Lori (that's her name) was on the top rung of the stool getting Eddie a book that he said he couldn't reach. Eddie was a bright boy for a kindergartner, because I remember exclaiming, "Lori, he's looking up your dress." (We all wore dresses to school in those days.) Eddie grinned, Lori turned beet red, and I told the teacher on him!

We laughed about how no one wanted to sit at the lunch table with Randy, because for some odd reason when he drank milk, it would run out of his nose! OOOOOH! I actually saw a girl 'lose her lunch' over that one.

We laughed how one day our teacher was holding a flash card that said, "_oop" and we were all yelling out letters to place in that 'blank' such as 'l' for 'loop' and 'c' for coop when suddenly the class clown yelled out 'p' for 'poop.' The whole room became dead silent. Of course the class clown was giggling under his breath while the rest of the class was looking at him as if to say, "How could you say that?" (Back then the word poop just wasn't said in school.) The teacher shrugged her shoulders and said, "Let's move onto the next flash card."

It was a great visit. Apparently she lives in the area and we exchanged telephone numbers and have decided to get together. I'm so glad I went to the pharmacy today!