Take a Walk on the Wild Side if You Dare

By Cindy Snow Robbins

Fiction based on true stories of the author Snow during the 60s in a more laid back time in society.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781631923999

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Legend

It has been said that by the age of five, children develops certain characteristics that they carry into adulthood. I don’t know who said this or how they determine this theory. I personally think it is probably some-body who doesn’t even have children, but for arguments sake let’s say it’s true. I decided to test this theory myself.

WHAT CAN A PENNY GET YOU

I’m not really quite sure who makes the rules or the guideline for writing a book or a short story. If you’re anything like me, God help us if you are, I went to get as much as I can for my money. I thought it would be helpful and may be entertaining to give some much needed wisdom or some useful information about life. Mind you now this is coming from a person who was raised and grew up in the 60s and hypothetically, I will deny any of these suggestions or information that I pass along to you. Have you ever wondered when people in hell get mad or angry where they tell people to go there already in hell. Just a thought.

Some people might think Snow is an unusual name for a child, but to me it just seemed normal. Actually, I think my parents really enjoyed Christmas and all the activities that go with winter so is not unusual that they called me Snow. I grew up in a very small town in New Jersey called Vincentown. It was a small town where everybody knew everybody. I remember as a child pretty much not worrying about anything. Our town was so peaceful that we only had two policemen and they only work from 9 to 5 and of course there’s no way possible they would even consider working weekend. My childhood was pretty typical nothing unusual. Although there was one particular thing most of us share in common is that we were all poor but it did not seem strange because we were all poor. The majority of us got free lunches and there would be two separate lines, the ones that could pay then of course the rest of us. You would think this would be embarrassing being singled out, but was actually kind of funny. The blue line as we called it as children was the longest line of the two. So we used to laugh at the so-called rich kids because they were the minority and in the yellow line. Most of us walk to school a few road buses. I don’t think we had anybody that would be considered a car rider or even a car line like they have today.

We started as kindergartners and only went a half a day. Our class was held in the Methodist Church. You do not need to be Methodists or any other religion to go. I believe we went there because of the space and it had a big kitchen. Why we need a kitchen I don’t know because we didn’t even cook anything. As far as space goes, we were not a very big class I think there was only 8 kids. I think it’s safe for me to say that I really don’t know why we went to school there - we just went.

My family was so poor that we could not even afford three cents for milk and cookies. I did not like being left out and to make matters worse, I had to sit and watch everybody eating milk and cookies. I had a little Dixie cup with water that wasn’t even cold. I decided I was going to ask the teacher if I could do something else during snack time. She looked at me like I was asking her to give me the world and she replied its best to learn this lesson early in life. What lesson? I just didn’t what to watch everyone eating. With a very stern voice she said that life isn’t fair and the sooner you learn this the better off you’ll be. I learned two important lessons that morning. The first one is if you have a problem the teachers is probably not the best person you need to talk to. The second lesson was a lot harder to understand and process in my tiny little brain that one would be life isn’t fair . Like I said at the time I really didn’t understand this concept, but all throughout life I will hear this and I guess it’s true that I learned this at a very early age.

I also decided at a very early age in order to make the playing field equal you need to have a plan. Mind you, this plan was made possible by a five-year-old. There was a small store that was owned and run by two sisters. I don’t know how old there were but they look really old. At the age of five everyone over 18 look old. The store had a little bit of everything. Nothing was organized and things were normally piled all over the place. I don’t know how they did it all you had to do is tell them what you needed and somehow in all this chaos they would find it. The best part about this store was when you went into the store there was a very large glass container that was filled with penny candy. Yes, I said penny candy and you got quite a bit of candy for a penny.

Now back to my plan. There was just one problem with this plan I had to figure out a way to get a couple pennies for this plan to work. Like I said these ladies were really old I thought maybe I could talk them into letting me do some work for them in exchange for some candy. I remember my dad one time