It Know It Was My Idea

Oh, you did not know Mrs. Klondike said. Haughty, uppity, not nice in the least. The festival has been moved and renamed. The Aprillstica has been re-named? No way! I was horrified, shocked. As my Aunt Bee was one of the original Villageonians, I felt she should be bothered immediately. “I know,” she sang gaily, in an unknown way into the phone. “It was my idea.” Her idea! Now I was truly confused. Had she gotten her pills mixed up again? My Aunt Bee has not sounded this happy since 1971 When she married the newest “love” of her life who Was her eighth husband, and a shyster like the others. I quickly drove to Springton Nursing Home to see what was up. “This is Harold,” she said in a voice I barely remembered. A sing-songy, happy, uplifting voice. Harry had initially had the idea to change Aprillstica Festival To Marchatillion Festival. Well, then, okay by me. She is ninety-six after all, and running out of charm. I am a wedding planner, and frankly, although I too am a Villageonian, business has been slow….