Tuesdays Magnolias

Last Sunday.  She walked into Mr. Medric's store.  She was coal black.  Her dress was as red as her lipstick.  She wore a big purple hat.  That's what Octavia said.  You know Octavia from Jeanerette.  She used to work in the meat department at Robin's.  Mr. Medric only remembered that she ordered a Coca-Cola and gave him two quarters.  He remembers how they pay.  In 35 years, he's been robbed 77 times.  She sat down on the cypress bench and took off her red shoes and rubbed her big toe.  Octavia asked her where she was going.  She said she was on her way to see somebody. 

David was telling me this at the bar.  I was sipping a Coors Light.  He said you know Octavia can be nosey.  He said the lady sipped her coke, rubbed her toe.  She got up and left.  Two seconds later, Bubba Hendricks walked in.  He said that he saw a lady in a purple hat walk into the cane rows and disappear.  David said well, she was just here and said she was going to see somebody.  Bubba said well whoever she saw musta swallowed her up.  She ain't nowhere to be seen. 

Octavia is still talking about it to everybody.  She said they saw the ghost of Thibodaux Louis's wife.  She caught him with another woman back at the mule barn.  They were in the hay rolling around.  She left and went and found a meat cleaver.  Somebody saw her walk into the barn but she never walked out.  No one did. 

After a while, I ordered another beer.  David said if you don't believe me ax Medric about that magnolia that was on the cypress bench.  I said he already told me.  Octavia too.  She said the lady got up, went out the door and left a magnolia.  Bubba Henricks sat on it.

That was my Tuesday.  Thank you.  Salud.