Re: Corn crazy!

Posted by Straw Boss on August 21, 2016 at 01:26:56 from (107.77.89.93):

In Reply to: Corn crazy! posted by Eldon (WA) on August 20, 2016 at 17:08:10:

Reminds me. When I was a wee lad we
had a good supply of sweet corn one
year so we loaded up the trunk of the
family car and painted up a couple of
Sweet Corn signs and set up on the
corner of our township road and the
state highway. I'm sure none of us
kids had a license to drive since I was
only about 11 years old and my older
brother wasn't there.

After an hour or so of brisk business,
we were visited by the Highway Patrol.
I remember I'd never seen one up close
before and thought his hat looked just
like the one Smokey the Bear wore in
the TV commercials. He looked all
business with the black stripe on the
side of his pants and gun on his hip.

I thought it was pretty cool to have
him stop and buy sweet corn from us but
he didn't seem interested. He kept
nosing around the car, looking in the
windows and looking over the open trunk
like he was looking for something
besides sweet corn.

After answering a bunch of questions
like where do you live and how old are
you and where are your parents, he kind
of stood there a few seconds like he
didn't know what to do next. I started
to get the feeling he wasn't interested
in sweet corn, but about that time I
remembered what my Dad said back when
we were to sell Scout-O-Rama tickets
door to door in town. He said it never
hurts to ask, the worst thing they can
say is no. So I took a breath and
said....Well....how many dozen ears do
you want? He just looked at me and
grunted something like "harumphff" then
he spun around, stomped off to his car
and peeled away like he was late for
supper.

To this day I feel slighted that Hypo
didn't buy any sweet corn from a
pathetic bunch of hard working hard
scrabble farm kids just trying to help
the family make a buck. Even more
disappointing was I knew full well
anything we didn't sell we'd have to
shuck and silk so mother could process
them for canning so every sale was
important to a kid with better things
to do.

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