That’s what tonight is all about. I just now (at 9 PM) got around to rolling the carts down to the curb. We ate Karl’s Cuisine stromboli tonight (traditional Italian) and then we watched either the first episode of Gomer Pyle or it might’ve been an episode of Andy Griffith in which Gomer left for the Marines. We weren’t sure. And then we watched an Andy Griffith episode in which Opie decided he had a crush on his teacher Helen Crump and with the help of a lady’s store proprietor (who had no clue) selected nylon stockings as a gift for her. An inappropriate gift for your teacher to be sure. That was all of the vintage TV re-runs I could handle because they all come with several minute commercial breaks and I cannot handle those.

Remember nylon stockings? I sure do. They were AWFUL! Wearing a garter belt with a mini-skirt? And they were forever getting runs. I remember when I was young enough to be on the cusp of wearing nylon stockings. I was at my aunt’s house one day (in what I remember as a HUGE kitchen) and she was instructing her youngest daughter (older cousin of mine) about buying nylon stockings. Every time you buy stockings, you need to buy two pairs. Or even three, four, or five. Little pitchers have big ears and overhearing this conversation I was wondering how the heck I would ever have enough money to go into a store and buy five pairs of nylon stockings.

This was well before women were allowed to have their own plastic cards. When I got one at about the age of 21, I couldn’t have passed a credit check (no income) so my dad told his bank employees that he guaranteed it would get paid (by him if necessary) and my mom forged my signature. There really aren’t a whole lot of perks to being a small-town banker’s daughter but that turned out to be one of them for me. I still have that card and it is still only in my name although I think the GG has managed to use it a few times without difficulty even though he has a different surname. It was originally a MasterCard but for many years it has been a VISA. Nowadays I pay the balance weekly. I have an alert set up to remind me bright and early every Monday morning.

Of course we ALL stopped wearing nylon stockings many years ago when panty hose arrived on the scene. I do NOT wear pantyhose any more either but I do wear tights in every color and then some. Nowadays there are tights that are made to FIT so you aren’t constantly tugging them up to your waist 🐽 I order them on the internet and Snag tights (google it) is my favorite vendor. They definitely make them to fit because they fit all sizes of women and proudly display them on models of all sizes. Nowadays I buy in quantity if they have something I know I will want more than a few pairs of.

So yeah babbling. G’night!

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