This is Old Blois and I wanted to just to give you a quick report on what happened down here at Christmas. You know everybody got a lot of presents and had a good time and it was just a real good Christmas for everybody but I wanted to just tell you that I got a brand new pair of overhauls and a couple of real nice flannel shirts. That's what I got for Christmas and then of course Flossy Buds made me one of them pineapple upside down cakes. You know that I like the good.
She always makes me one ever Christmas and I tell you something else you done and I didn't say nothing about it because it was good but what she does she makes these fruit cakes and she soaks them in rum is what she does and what's funny about that is that Flossy Buds see she don't believe in drinking no way no how and if somebody wants to bring some rum in down here she she throw them out of the house I mean she just she just don't have nothing to do with drinking at all but she will get that rum and soak them fruit cakes in the in the rum and she brought me a fruit cake over here that she had done that with I think she soaked them for a couple of months but I want to tell you one thing that it was good but you wouldn't want to eat a whole bunch of it because it's the same thing as drinking if you and that's the truth and I didn't say nothing to her about it I was glad to get it but I think if she knowed you know that that fruit cake was toxicating I don't believe she I don't believe she'd make it so I ain't gonna tell her but anyway that's what I got for Christmas and of course I get everybody something I got Flossy a brand new percolator and a mixer I mean I didn't know what to get her but I talked to Emily down the road there that woman that lived down there on the corner and she told me that Flossy done a lot of bacon of course I know that but she said she would really get a lot of use out of that mixer so I bought her a mixer and brought it down there too but of course Emily you know she got a brand new I'm talking about my Emily now I'm talking about my girl Emily well she got a brand new computer and a brand new iPhone and one of them are echoes she one of these things that you bring into your house and plug in and it'll talk to you and those things for you you know it kind of scares me because I'm afraid them things is listening to you all the time because I ain't saying nothing that I get that I would cure for her here and I don't guess but it's still you know just the idea of it kind of scares you a little but anyway that's what Emily wanted and that's what I got her but I guess the thing that was was you know really made the most news around here was I tell you what happened Jimmy Vanderstig not he I told you Jimmy Vanderstig is a real good old boy and he runs this works in this garage down here and he come on this woman one time she was driving this 64 Ford Mustang and of course you know Jimmy likes him old cars anyway so he he come on this woman and she was in that Mustang but she was broke down on the side of the road and so Jimmy asked her could he help her and she said well said said she had stopped down there at that service station you know down there about a Lehigh where that you come off the interstate and she said that she got her want to get her some gas and went to the bathroom and when she come out the man told her he said you got a problem with this car and said it's gonna cost you about four hundred and seventy five dollars to get it fixed well she didn't believe it because she said there was nothing wrong with it when I come in here and he said well it just you know sometimes things just happen well she didn't believe it and she thought he was lying to her so she got in the car and started down the road and he had commenced to miss and you know and Mac Farr and Caron and she stopped there on the side of the road and just happened that Jimmy was had come along he he just happened to come along there when she was sitting there and so she he asked her was she having trouble could he help her and she told him the story she said you know she told him about stopping at that service station down there and so Jimmy said well don't tell me no more because I'm gonna take that old boy down there is crooked and said he'll let me take a look at the car and see what he's done to it said he's he's messed it up some kind of way and said he's gonna charge you that money to fix that car he said if there wasn't nothing wrong with it when you brought it in there it ought not to be nothing wrong with it now so he raised up the hood and looked at it and he just looked at it for a second and put it back down he said ma'am he said what he's done is what he has done is he's crossed wired this car and he said I'm gonna have to tow you back to the to my station he said I've got this garage right up here it's about half a mile down the road and he said what I'm gonna do is tell you that tell you down there and look up in the book he said I don't know the far in order of them of 64 mustnacks he said I can look it up I've got a book down there that better tell me and so she said well what's it gonna cost me and he said well it won't cost you nothing he said somebody has cheated you and he said I ain't gonna make it worse by charging you well she she you can't blame her because she just felt like she was being mistreated but and she didn't know who to believe but Jimmy said you just let me tow you down there and I'll fix your car so he told her down the road to his garage and he got out his book and it told every kind of Mustang in there I told a foreign order except he couldn't find a 64 Mustang and he kept looking and he couldn't find it well he got on the phone and he called up this fellow up there in in detroit that he knowed and he asked him he said what is the foreign order of these 64 Mustangs he said I ain't got it wrote down nowhere and the guy told him he said well Jimmy you know they'd know each other they had served together in the army and he told him what the foreign order was he said it's just it's just real easy he said oh you got to do it Jimmy said well yeah I know how to do it he said I just know what the foreign order was so he he went out there and wired that car up right for her you know like it was supposed to be and he got in there and started up and of course he run like it was supposed to and so she was so appreciative and she said well let me let me pay you she was about you know 60 year old and she said I've got some money said I ain't got no money with me but said you give me your address and she said I'll send you the money and he said ma'am they ain't no charge now for this car said that man mess you up and he said you ought not to have to pay and said you ain't gonna pay because I ain't gonna charge you so anyway she wrote down his address and he said well you you have my address but said I don't want any money said you've been cheated and so we just we just let it go with that well Jimmy forgot all about it this happened about two months ago and he forgot all about it and he said day before Christmas he said this truck come down there at his garage and said it stops and had a present for Jimmy Vanderstig and so the man unloaded he had a great big old tool chest and it had every kind of a tool that you can think of had a you know a couple of drills and a lot of different you know bits of every different size that they is and had screwdrivers and wrenches and you know cables and just any kind of a tool that you can think of was in that chest Jimmy said it must have been you know two or three thousand dollars worth of tools in that chest and he said but he said you must have the wrong man he said I didn't order nothing like that he said I couldn't afford that if I wanted to and the guy said no sir said it ain't a ain't no charge for it said it's a present said somebody sent it to you and Jimmy said well who is it from and so the guy said well I ain't supposed to tell you he said they told me not to tell you just to bring it to you and tell you thank you and so Jimmy didn't want to make didn't want to you know take it but the guy persisted so Jimmy took it and he was of course he was tickled to death he was showing it to everybody and he got it in the garage there and and just happened he looked on the back of it and there was a note from this woman and she said Jimmy she said Merry Christmas she said you helped me and she said I'm going to give you this present to show my appreciation and he was signed Miss Marcy I believe it's Marcy plain at least what her name was I know her last name was plain I think it was Marcy well as it turned out what happened was that that woman that had come in to Jimmy's station she was the mama of she now twain I don't know who she now twain is but Jimmy did he said she was a a singer and so it just happened that she was her mama and that present had come from she now twain is what that's the truth if I've ever told it so that's that was the surprise that we got down here Christmas so that just shows you always be willing to help somebody out because you never do know who you who you might meet up with but uh Jimmy said he said I would have heard said didn't make you know I didn't know who she was but he said I wasn't expecting nothing said I just like to help people so that just kind of goes to show you that a good deed ain't never forgot