This is old blowers and I'm gonna have to tell you something. A real sad that happened because of the far and it happened to Mr. Matthews and I hate it in the worst way and everybody else down here hates it too. Now I ain't gonna lie to you.
I didn't like Mr. Matthews. I couldn't stand to be around him. But it was because that he let on to be better than what I was and what everybody else was.
And he'd try to talk over your head and show off his education. And he did have a lot of education. And I really think that's wonderful that somebody can get that much education and he was a smart man. But you know everybody is the same and just because somebody has more education than somebody else they don't have to act like they're better because all of us is equal in the eyes of the Lord.
Well what happened was that Mr. Matthews had a complete, nervous breakdown. And I wasn't up there to see it but people told me what happened. And on the day of the far nobody hadn't seen Mr.
Matthews until he come right back. He was running across the gym field and had a little old vitty garden hose and he was running toward the far and he was hollering and they of course they called up with him and grabbed a hold of him and he said you know turn me loose I've got to go put the far out. Well that little old trickle that come from that garden hose wouldn't have had no effect on that far at all. And they said Mr.
Matthews you better come away from that far. He said they said you're going to get killed and he said no I've got to take care of the lovely children said they're my responsibility and I've got to take care of them and they said well Mr. Matthews they ain't no children up around here they're all away from the far and you don't have to worry about them. Well he started out running again and they called up with him and one of them got on one side of them and one of them got on the other side and they took him away from the far drugging down there and he started crying in and said it was all his fault and he should have had that stuff hauled away from there and should have told that chicken house down well he was right about that but it was too late to be crying about it it was already burning and there wasn't anything he could do about it.
Well they they tried to calm him down and they couldn't and they've got this little health room up there where they take the kids when they've got a stomach ache or a headache or don't feel good and they've got a registered nurse up there to you know take care of them and she either gives them treatment or sends them home if they're sick and they took him to her and when they did and they turned him loose well he convinced to try to fight her and she called him the doctor and the doctor come up there and give him what they call a tranquilizer and it calmed him down and so what they done they had to take him they've got this little rehabilitation hospital and they took him down there and admitted him to that hospital and that's where they was trying to cure him and I'm going to tell you the rest of it in just a minute how you know how they treated him and what happened as you know to Mr. Matthews after his nervous breakdown. Well all of us you know felt bad about what happened to Mr. Matthews and we all went in down there to see him and they had got him you know it was like he was a kid they had got him some crayons to play with and some you know some blocks and and he was you know acting like a kid you know or like a old you know a seven-year-old kid and they of course we all went in to see him and talk to him and and it seemed like he would come to his self you know we told him that we was sorry he was sick and hoped he got better and a lot of the kids come in to see him and told him how sorry they was and they hoped he got better and and he would get you know he would sort of come out of it but then when we would leave he would go back you know acting like he was before and they they brought his music you know for that classified music that he likes the good they brought it in down there and played that for him and that seemed like that done him more good than anything else and he he liked that classified music well it seemed like he started getting better and the board come in down there mister mister a pouncey and mister animes and rest of them and they told him they said mister methoo's they said you own administrative leave is what they call administrative leave and they said you just stay here and get well and don't worry about your job that it'll be there for you when you get when you get over it we know we're going that you're gonna get over this well you know they wouldn't be in plum honest with him but they was you know they were doing the best they know how to do because I know that I'd already talked to him and I know that they was aiming to get rid of mister methoo's at the end of the year well but they couldn't you know that wouldn't have time to tell him and so they were trying to help him get over it well you know gradually gradual he come back to himself except that he was he wasn't as you know he was a better person really because he acted he wasn't so smart acting you know and he wouldn't you know calling people names and making fun of people he was just talking to you like he was a regular person and he was a a lot better to be around and so gradual he come he got over it and he got he got back to normal and the board come in down there two weeks or three weeks later and they said mister methoo's we're going to keep you on a minestrated leave for a while longer and he told him he said no he said probably the best thing for me and for everybody would be for me to go somewhere else and get a you know a fresh start and of course that that took a load off of everybody's mind because you know they know they was going to get rid of him and we know it too but if he was going to resign then that would make it easier on everybody and so he did he resigned and and he's a he's up and over now and he has a has applied for a job apparent over and I believe that the the Dover I mean that the board down here I think they're going to be honest with the Dover school district because they have to do that but at the same time I think they're going to give him a good recommend and I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you just a little bit more kind of wind this up after you know in just a little bit and then will but I'm real I'm real happy the way it all turned out and I'll give you the ending to this story in just a minute.
Well like I was saying that Mr. Matthews is in Dover now but before he left I had a chance to talk to him and I don't know you know nothing about talking to somebody here I ain't even got no education and I was talking to this man and he'd graduated from college and and had this all this he was a whole lot smarter he is a whole lot smarter than I am but I said I says Mr. Matthews I want to tell you something and I said I know I'm near nothing like as smart as what you are but I said I'm going to tell you what it's something a little bit about getting along in this world and I says if you're going to do a job you got to understand first of all that you ain't perfect I said ain't nobody perfect and don't nobody expects you to be perfect and I said what you've got to do is to try to do the best you can and I said you've got to depend on other people to help you because you can't do it all by yourself and I said if if you will show people respect then they will respect you and they will try to help you and I said I'm not trying to wrap up on my hind legs and talk to you because I know you're a lot smarter than I am but I says that's the way that I have learned to try to get along in the world and he said well he says I know now that education ain't everything and he says I know that you ain't got no education but he said what you got is wisdom and so I'm going to take note of what you're telling me and he said I'm going to be a better man because of it and so the board come down and talk to him before he left and they kind of told him you know the same way that I done he said they done a better job because you know they they know how to put things you know better than I do and they told him that he would be a better man because of this experience if he would take it to heart and learn from it and he told him he was going to so like I say he's backing over now and as far as I know he is back to normal and I'm going to go up there and see him and you know pretty soon and keep up with him I'm going to write him letters I asked him could I do it I said can I just keep in touch with you and he said yeah he'd he'd like that so you know he don't talk even nothing like the same person that he was before the far and I believe I believed in my soul that Mr. Matthews is going to be alright so I'm glad it come out that way and I just hope I'm right and I just hope he learns from his mistakes and I think he will and I think he'll make him a real good principal up there and over.