“Curious Tommy Boy”
Just when you think you will be going to Vallejo, California you catch – the Mumps, from your younger brother ! I kept saying I felt good – but my face and neck was telling my parents a different story. It was toward the end of WWII, and my father was called up to do what he was trained to do – welding on ships!
My brother, Tommy was over the Mumps, and really feeling good that now he would get to travel to California! So my Dad and little brother took the train from Saint Louis to California, and that was when the trains were full of Veterans and Service men and women, doing their part to protect America! There was a Boarding House where they would be staying and a woman care-taker for Tommy. My Dad would be working at Mare Island Shipyard, and Tommy highly inquisitive, managed to sneak around without being caught in places where he had no business!
One story, my Dad sent to us was about how the “Cook” was putting trays of cookies with fresh icing on, to set, and cookies were disappearing? She had to make plenty for all the boarders and was getting pretty upset , not finding the cookies that were suppose to be for the dessert? Well, little ole’ “Tommy boy, ” found the trays of cookies and a hiding place – where he licked all the icing ‘off ‘ of the cookies and hid them!
Another story , was that the alarm clock was left to wake Tommy up at a time after Daddy had left for the Shipyards, and everyone thinks Tommy did not like the noise – took my Dad’s alarm clock and threw it out the window. May not have been too bad , but that was from the second floor!
Years later, laughing about it – we like to say Tommy threw the clock out the window – just to see Time Fly!
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