This is old boys again, and I'm gonna tell you a story and you ain't gonna believe it But I swear to you it's true Then the reason I say that you ain't gonna believe it is because oh To its Adams come down here. Well, I said to it's she don't like to be called anymore She wants me to call a friend singing so I try to remember that but I've known her all my life And she was she went by the name of to its Adams That's what everybody called her But she wants to be called Francine and she's a adult now and a teacher down here So I'm gonna go go and do what she wants me to do But anyway, she come down here to the house and she was bringing a kitten down here to my girl Emily She got the cutest little Tabby cat that she brought him down here to my girl Emily and and they was out there playing with it and I come in To come in to the house I'd just gone off with Jimmy Vanderstig and and I was telling him what happened and and Francine She said mr. Porter now. You know that ain't truth Well, the trouble is that these young people they they didn't come up the way I done and I'm glad they didn't I'm glad they don't have to do what I done when I was growing up that way But the reason that I got for idea is because I learned to make do with the way things was But anyway, I'm gonna go on with the story But it is the truth.
I swear to you it is but I was gonna take two bulls hosting bulls down here and and Sell them and all those three three of them hosting bulls and I was gonna take them to the auction over there in Memphis And sell them so you can't keep a lot of bulls around cuz they fight when they get when they get big They fight so I try to keep you know two bulls around and the rest of them I have to get rid of and I either trade them off or or I sell them well I took these bulls to the stock market Well, I was talking to Jimmy Vanderstig and I was asking him would he go down there with me and I told him that I would Pay him if he'd go down there with me and reason I wanted him to go is I got these bad eyes And I don't see to drive very good at night So I was afraid that I'd get back after dark and I wanted him to go with me and I told him I would pay him But he told me he said no mr. Poor he said I'll ride down there with he said I ain't got nothing to do and he said I'll go down there with you If you'll buy my dinner Well, I told him that would be glad to do that but I wish you know and in looking back at it I work to put him on salary because I ain't never seen a boy or a grown-up of man or nobody eat that much food he had about 15 flapjacks and a bunch of sausages and and drunk about a half a gallon of orange juice and Much eggs I've never seen anybody in my life eat that much food But anyway, I'm just joking because I was I don't begrudging anything He had because he sure has helped me out a lot of times and it was lucky that I had him along with me this time Because of what happened, but I didn't know it was gonna happen when I left I thought we would just go to Memphis and sell them bulls and then come on back Well, I went to the stock yard after after feeding Jimmy Vanderstig I went to the stock market and they had It's not a stock market. It's a stock barn and and I sold it bulls for a real good price and But I got to looking around and there was a fellow that had two of the prettiest whole steam heifers that I have ever seen And so I got the dickering with him and and I bought them two heifers and Put them in the truck now I've got this old 51 Ford pickup truck and it belonged to my daddy and my daddy drove it until he got Too old to drive and then he gave it to me and I've been driving it off and on ever since not much Just you know when I'm hauling cows or something like that. I usually I've got this 1998 Toudy Toudy down here and I usually drive it, you know going up to the store But if I go to take the cows, I take them in that pickup truck, you know Well, I loaded them cows Then caves on to the truck and me and Jimmy Started out and we had old old Roscoe White in there with us.
He come with us and and of course I had to had to feed old Roscoe too, but he didn't eat nothing like as much as Jimmy Vanderstig did But anyway, they was they were both in there with me and and then I was sitting on the Outside and and Roscoe White was in the middle and Jimmy Vanderstig was driving Well, we've gone about 15 miles and that truck started into missing and and uh, you know jumping and Seam like you couldn't keep it running and pretty soon it plumb quit and Jimmy Vanderstig told me it was probably the fuel pump. Of course Jimmy Vanderstig is a cracker jack mechanic But he told me that he didn't dare try to fix it on the road that way because if it was rusty and it was to you know I think he said to celebrate, you know, just fall apart falling to pieces He said there wasn't anything he could do about that and he said as old as that truck is that that could happen So he said we were gonna have to try to get it home if we could well, it was about 30 miles to the house And I told Jimmy I told Jimmy Vanderstig I said we we can't push this truck all the way to the house besides We had them two heifers in the back end of the truck and then heifers was doing, you know What the what heifers do if you've been around calves, you know what was going on And if you don't then you don't want to know but anyway, it I mean I had to get them home pretty quick if I could So what Jimmy told me he said I'm gonna try to start the truck again and said you lean out the window and blow in the gas tank Well, you know Jimmy is always pulling these tricks on me and making these jokes, you know He knows that I don't know nothing about cars And I thought he was just pulling my leg again And I said all Jimmy you you quit that now You know that that ain't gonna do no good and he said oh it it said it will he said I believe if it's a fuel pump He said I believe we can get it home Well, if you've seen these old Ford pickups that they made back in the 1950s They've got the gas tank right on the back right next to the passenger door just behind the door and so You can you know you can lean out the truck if you're careful and don't fall out Well, I told Roscoe White to get a hold of my feet and he did and I was hanging out the window And I had to the cap off of that gas tank and I started blowing in that gas tank and Jimmy Vanderstig started the car up And it run just like a top now folks. It was cold out there It was just as cold as it could be and I was about to freeze to death And so I got on back in the car and we drove I guess about five miles down the road and it started missing again And Jimmy said well you better get get out there and blow in the gas tank again So Roscoe White took a hold of my feet And I leaned out the window again and took the gas cap off and blowed in the gas tank And it started running smooth again and I got back in the truck well I mean got my head back in it was cold and it was it had come in to drizzle rain and And so anyway that car would run that truck would run about five miles and then it'd start missing And so I had to keep on sticking my head out the window and blowing in that gas tank And we got that truck home It took us over a good hour hour and I have to do it But we got it home and I was just about froze to death by the time we got home But that that happened I'm telling you the truth and it was office mess I ever got into of course by that time Then caves had you know messed up the back of the truck and I had to get a hose and hose out the truck and Jimmy Van Der Stig come down there the next day and took the fuel pump off of that car And he said all that was wrong with it was that the gasket had wore out on it and Oh Jimmy Van Der Stig you know he goes to these record yards and he gets these parts off of these old junk cars and a lot of times he can talk people out of them you know and They using them or and so he had he's got a whole bunch of parts down there at his house That he has savaged off of these trucks old trucks and cars and he had a gasket for that fuel pump And and he put it on there and put the fuel pump back on the truck and it run just like a sewing machine And of course I was just tickled that you know I thought I'd have to buy a fuel pump But he he he told me it didn't wouldn't cost me nothing and I said well Jimmy I said now I know that it didn't take you long to do that and but I said you know you had to savage that part that gasket off of that old car and I said that that took your time and I said you ought to let me Pay you for it and he said no he said you bought me a dinner yesterday and he said I don't want no no pay at all so I was tickled to get the truck fixed and Like I say you might not believe the story, but it really happened and Except for the almost Freezing to death well, I was I was tickled about it I mean, you know, I didn't have no idea in the world that you could do that But it takes somebody of some knowing person You know a experienced person to know that kind of stuff and Jimmy Vanderstig works on these cars all the time And so he really like I say he knows his in noses cars and he knows his engines So anyway, I was glad that I bought him that that dinner because it was worth it And I sure was glad I had him with me because I don't know what I would have done with that truck and that them cows If it hadn't been for Jimmy Vanderstig