Houston Ford

This is old boys and I'm going to tell you about this old boy that lives down here, hadn't lived down here long about two years I believe, but he's a real interesting person and he is keen in some way to old Carl that runs this beer garden down here and I get these relations mixed up you know but what he is he's Carl's brother's grandson that's who he is, Carl's brother's grandson I don't know what kin that makes him to Carl but you can figure that out for yourself but his name is Houston forward and like I say he ain't lived in this community very long for a long time he lived in Las Vegas, Nevada and he lived out there I used to hear old Carl talk about him well he joined up with the wouldn't arm me but he was a military outfit of some kind and he went to Afghanistan and spent two years over there and he lost his eyesight and some kind of an accident over there and he come on back home and he was living in Phoenix Arizona and old Carl you know has kept in touch with him over the years so old Carl told him to come out here and he had given him a job and so old Carl you know he's got this beer garden up here but he built this little old annex to it and he's got this little store there and they sell you know candy and cold drinks and you know razor blades and all bunch of you know stuff that you would need he sells a few groceries and he sells everything there but cigarettes he won't sell cigarettes he he don't believe in smoking and he don't even let you let you smoke in that beer garden and the only time I ever seen Carl Mad was and only time I ever seen him you know use any force on anybody was somebody come into that place where Houston forward was working and had a cigarette and oh Houston told him he said you know Carl don't allow you to smoke in here and it was it was old Merrell's who it was that he was talking to and no Burrell got smart and he said well you blind I can't remember what he called him he said how you know I'm smoking maybe I'm maybe I'm dipping well oh Carl happened to hear him and he come up there and grabbed him by the belt and carried him out in the yard and throw him into that barrel that they got that water barrel that they got there and he told him not to never come back there no more and that's the only time I've ever seen Carl you know really get mad but I'm getting away from the story but I just don't I throw that in but anyway oh oh Houston you know Carl put him in charge of that store and he's added you know stuff to it oh Houston has put in some other merchandise and he runs that thing and where I met him you know as I come in there one time and I was going to get me a one of them great knee-hives and so that man told me he said you know I don't believe I've ever met you before and I told him my name I said my name is Lawrence Porter and I said I lived down there about a mile down or two miles down the road and and told him about what I'd done and I raised him had him cows and and I sold me up to the school and so forth and so I didn't know at that time that he couldn't see he just I didn't wouldn't pay no attention and I told him what I bought or he and he I paid him for it and so next time I went up there well he called me but name and he said hey blowers how you doing and so it kind of finally occurred to me that that man couldn't see but I never thought nothing about it because you know if he knowed who I was well I didn't care how he knowed but it it maced other people around him but it didn't it didn't it didn't it didn't amaze me because I've seen people do lots of things I've seen animals do things that surprised me and so you can't surprise me no more and my girl has come in there before and and she she he found out that she was my girl and he learned her name was Emily so lots of times she comes in there after school to get you know candy or something and he always calls her by name and so she come back home one time and she said daddy how does he know who I am and she said he can't see and I said Emily I don't know I said maybe he smells you well that you know she made her mad and she said you say in the dye stink and I said well no Emily I didn't say that I said you you know a dog can smell you I said I don't mean you smell bad I said you just everybody's got a smell I guess I said I don't know I don't go around smelling people and I said I don't know how he knows who you are but if you want to know you can ask him and he'll tell you but I said I don't worry about that I said the important thing is that he does and how he does it is his own business but I guess if you want to know you could ask him and he wouldn't mind telling you but anyway I'm going to tell you some more about old Houston forward in the next podcast that I do because he is you know a pretty good pretty good fellow he's a young feller and and but he is real friendly and he talks to you you know and he always talks to me and he's a he seems like he's a real smart feller that way and I remember one time I went up there to get some stuff and and I got you know some groceries and some coke and candy and and I told him what all I bought you know and he said well you owe and he told me what I owed is about six dollars and eighty five cents I believe well I didn't you know he didn't add it up and nothing and I didn't I didn't question him he said I owed it so I paid him but when I got home I added all that stuff up and he was right to the penny and so after that I never did wonder about it I just paid him what he said but one time I told him I said Houston I said you must be awful smart to to be able to do that you know and add that stuff up like that and he said well he said in some ways I might be and he said in some ways I might be as dumb as dirt but he said that you know that's true of most everybody he said you know everybody has some stuff that they can do and he said everybody has some stuff that they can't do and he said like you know you might be real smart in some ways and and in some ways you might be as dumb as dirt too and I laughed and I said well you write about that and so anyway I'm going to tell you some more about old Houston in the next podcast but and I'm gonna tell you something that he done that it amazed other people didn't amaze me because like I told you before nothing that people does you know amazes me anymore I know that everybody has abilities what they do they call that being unique that's what my girl said said everybody was unique so anyway I'm I'm rambling here and I'm gonna get in trouble with her so I'm gonna shut this down and I'll come back today or two and tell you some more about old Houston because I think you'll be amazed.