This is all the lowest and the reason that I'm talking to you today is that we have got real trouble down here and I don't know how it's gonna come out, but I wanted to let you know about it because I know I've talked to you about the people down here before and you know about old flossy and the people that live in this neighborhood. So I thought you'd want to know if we was having any trouble down here and we are we've got some real trouble and it started you know innocent it started you know for no reason at all, but There was a federal ex-man to come down here. You know he delivers these packages and He come down to Emily's house Emily lives up down here in the last trailer on this road and he come down to her house with a package and Told Emily Emily that she was gonna have to sign for the package or he couldn't give it to her. Well, uh, I don't know how many of you know it, but Emily, you know never did go to school.
She don't know how to write. She back when she was growing up She didn't go to school and a lot of the girls didn't she stayed home in helped her mom or grandma or grandma and You know, I don't know I know Emily's In her 80s. I know that but I don't know for sure how old Emily is She's a lot older than I am, but I don't know for sure how she is and I don't believe Nobody down here knows how old Emily is and I don't even know if Emily knows how old Emily is I don't think she does but anyway, I'm getting I'm getting off the subject again I don't know not to do that but anyway I wanted to tell you that Emily comments, you know She didn't want to tell the man She couldn't read and so she told him first thing she told him was that she'd lost her glasses and couldn't she get somebody else to sign For it and he said no, he couldn't give the package to her unless she would sign for it Well, she told him she had this uh nervous Condition and she was uh had this palsy in her hands and she couldn't grip a pencil and He told her that all she had to do was take her finger and sign it on that But pad you know that he cared around and uh of course She you know she told him that he couldn't do that that uh said it wouldn't look like anything because she had this nervous condition And he said he didn't hear what it looked like he just had to have her sign it Well, anyway to make a long story short he went on the way in and Emily called Flossie, you know and and uh Flossie told her she'd say she'd get her package for her say she'd have her So You know Flossie hips Emily anyway, she always has she comes down here in milks or cow and and feeds her cats and you know If Emily's feeling poorly well, you know Flossie'll fix her some Something to eat and uh Flossie just you know she takes care of everybody down here But but she really does you know she she lacks so Emily and so she she takes care of Emily Well, it was a couple of days later that old federal ex men come back down here and he said that uh If she voted her package she was gonna have to sign for it Well, Flossie was there and Flossie said well, she can't sign for it and she said i'm gonna have to sign for her and uh Man said no, he couldn't he couldn't allow that well Flossie convinced getting mad You know, she said that didn't make no sense that it he knowed it was him And Emily had said that she could sign her name and and why wouldn't he let her do it and he said well that was the rules of his company is what he said and Of course by that time, oh Flossie had done got mad and she reached down and picked him up and held him out there over the Edge of the porch and of course he he convinced the hollering. He said, you know put me down But me down and she said well, I'll have to check with my supervisor first.
That's what she said and uh So He is hollering and uh, I told her I said Flossie you're gonna get in trouble And she said she didn't think so said uh directly when that man had been held out there long enough that he would He would give in and he'd let her sign it and that's all she wanted. She just wanted Emily to get her package well, uh You know, she held him out there for about I guess how it seemed like seem like 10 minutes to me And I said Flossie how long do you think you can hold him out there? And you know, Flossie is about 6'2 and she's all muscled up her day or her granddad He was a blacksmith and so she said uh, said well said I'm uh I'm getting tired and said I guess I'm just gonna have to drop him Well, of course that that scared him then, you know, and he said nought said let him down and and he would let her sign the pad So Flossie said him on his feet and he'd give her the pad Well, uh Like I was telling you that man You know, he after Flossie threatened to drop him. Well, he he told her that he'd let her sign it So she put him back on his feet and she signed that A pad that he carried around, you know that screen that they carry around and he she signed him his name on that and that man gave the package to Emily And uh, and I thought that was the end of it, you know, Emily had her package and and and Flossie had signed his his uh His pad and and I figured that was the end of it Well, it wasn't because uh what he done was he went up down there And swore out a complaint against Flossie He he talked to the sheriff and and swore out a complaint against her and before I noted the old sheriff had come down there Now he knowed Flossie, but he come down there to arrest her and uh, he uh, you know had his guns strapped to his he up and you know, he swaggin around like a you know, a sheriff would do Well, old Flossie was watching for him and she come up behind him and grabbed his gun and thowed it in the rivers what she done And uh, and she told that old sheriff, well what she said, I maybe I ought not to say this on this podcast But what she told him was that she was going to whip his ass if he didn't get on away from here Well, you know that sheriff He didn't have his gun.
He wasn't swaggering then he went on with his tail between his legs and went on back up town there And then I thought that was the end of it again But what the sheriff done was he went up town and started getting him a posse up to come down and get old Flossie And uh, he had about 30 people signed up to come down here in a posse But then he let it slip what he wanted him for what he wanted him to do Well, some of them got to you know got cold feet there And they didn't want to have no racket with Flossie And they told him they had uh, things to do when him had to take his mama to the doctor and and uh, one of them had to take his uh, he's a kid up to school and uh, one of them said he had uh, uh, had a sick cow that he had to take care of And one of them said he had to plow his field and different ones of them had different excuses Now some of them was afraid of Flossie They didn't want to tangle with her, you know, and but most of them just you know didn't want to do it because they didn't And because they didn't uh, want to do anything, you know, cause Flossie any trouble because they know her and they liked her, you know, Flossie's Good to everybody, she just is just as as as good as a pit dog And so they didn't want to have, you know, to do anything to Flossie and before that sheriff noted he didn't have no uh, posse at all Well, that's as far as I can tell you that's the last I heard And I don't know if that's the end of it or not because I don't believe That sheriff will come down here now. He might get him. You'll call the state police and bring them down here But I don't think they'll fool with it and and I don't think the sheriff wants to have any Any dealings with Flossie. I mean everybody down here is going to take care of Flossie And uh, if he commences to mess with Flossie He's got everybody down here to mess with to deal with because they ain't gonna let nothing happen to Flossie And I'm gonna tell you something.
I don't want no trouble down here And uh, I do most anything to keep from having trouble down here because I believe in, you know, being peaceful and living peaceful But I won't tell you one thing he ain't gonna hit he ain't gonna lay a finger on Flossie He got to deal with me if he's gonna deal with Flossie So I don't know if that's the end of it or not, but I'll keep you You're deformed if if anything else comes comes along because I know you'd go You'd want to help Flossie if you could and uh, maybe some of you would like to you know, write some letters and in support Uh of Flossie or maybe call the sheriff, but anyway, I'll let you know I that might just be the end of it Because I don't believe he'll come back down here, but we'll see and we'll do whatever we got to do