I've talked a lot about Ms Alberta’s sense of humor.
I believe she must have gotten a lot of that from her mother, Myrtle “Mom”
Shoupe.
In 1956 we were living on Old 31W, now called
Sportsman’s Lake Road, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I remember one year Mom and
Pop had come to visit us. We were going on a picnic to Lincoln Farm in
Hodgenville. Pop, Danny and Dad had gone on ahead to find a good place for us
to set up and Ms Alberta, Mom Shoupe, my sister, Jean and I were to follow with
the goodies for the picnic. Somehow we got locked out of the house and Ms
Alberta remembered we didn’t have a knife for the watermelon.
Mom Shoupe loved watermelon and was determined we
were going to have some to eat at the picnic. The only way to get back into the
house for a knife was through a bedroom window.
Mom Shoupe took one of the folding chairs we had in the
car; climbed up on that and then through the window. On her way back out Mom Shoupe
got so tickled it was all she could do to get out the window. I guess it was a
good thing that she had handed the knife to Ms Alberta or there could have been
an accident.
Mom Shoupe
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