"That's my mom. She worries too much. Safety this and safety that. Kind of funy too, cause she's not scared of anything. One time, in June, she was crossing the street, and an old man was leaving the dinner in his Cadillac and her almost hit her, I guess he was bad at seeing stuff. And she never flinched, she just kept walking like she didn't see him. I guess he eventually looked where he was going, cause then he stoped. She was on the cross walk, and she just kept sipping her coke like nothing was going on. I think she used to go out in the boat with grandpa and dad before he died."
"Ish! Who are you talking too?"
"Alright mom! I'm coming I'm coming! Geeze, whats the big deal, its only the flu or the meazles or the mumps! Really mom, what kind of bubonic barfing badcold do you think I am going to catch out here?"
"Did you give a bath to the cows Ish? You know how cranky they get if you don't give them their daily sponging!
"Yes, mother, they were just as happy as could be when I saw them last. I may have been imagining things, but I think Bessy smiled at me!"
-Of course, this being rural Indiana, Ish and his mom had no cows, only corn fields, and those didn't have any corn, not any more. They did what they had to do to get by.
"Lets get pizza tonight, said Ish, I want pepperoni!"
