FORGET THOSE VACATIONS!

There’s been a lot goin’ on in the Butler/Kinkaid household. And it all came to a head when the family was on vacation and Bethy Rose asked Mary Margaret to help a local woman find her daughter. Let me tell you, even I, Lutie Mae Lucas, tried to tell Bethy Rose that this wasn’t somethin’ any of them should get involved in. I mean to tell you that even Mary Margaret tried to not get involved, telling Bethy Rose she really couldn’t get messed up  with the police in another state on behalf of a story she had no way of knowing was real or not. Then that darlin’ child used her ace in the hole—she’d go to Miguel and get him to help.

Needless to say, Mary Margaret didn’t want Miguel to even know what Bethy Rose was proposing. So she reluctantly went to see this Mz Candy and hear the story. The mother cried and of course, that got to my dear niece. So she agreed to check around. Now, I ask you, how does she check around in a foreign place—yes, I do believe Florida is a foreign country when you compare it to our lovely state of Texas—and not ruffle lots of feathers?  You got it. She asked so many questions and followed so many leads, headed down blind alleys, and stirred up a hornet’s nest. The Chief of Police pounded on their motel door one night and Miguel was questioned about his being out of his jurisdiction and stickin’ his nose in somethin’ he knew nothin’ about.

You do know, that all hell broke loose at that point. As Mary Margaret had predicted, Miguel was so hot under the collar he told everyone to pack up. Bethy Rose cried and carried on, tellin’ him she was the one who caused all the problems. Mary Margaret told Miguel to suck it up; she reminded him that she had a mind and a will of her own—and, besides, he didn’t own her! The Chief later admitted he had been wrong when he got Mz Candy to admit her latest, worthless live-in was absent, too. Maybe he could use some help. And, peace maker that he was, the Chief thought it would be a good idea if Mary Margaret was allowed to help Miguel and him in the search for Mz Candy’s daughter, Faylene.

I’m not gonna tell you the entire story here just in case Mz Barbara wants to write about it but I will tell you that Faylene came home, Mz Candy threw a picnic on the Boardwalk for everyone involved before my family made their way home, and somehow (and I didn’t look nor ask how) Miguel and Mary Margaret arrived back here all lovey-dovy.

Mary Margaret said she is never takin’ another vacation. She’s satisfied to be right here livin’ her own life in Harts Corner. Isn’t that funny comin’ from someone who tried so hard to get out of town for so many years?