Picking up random useless junk and hauling it back to momma, asking please, please, please, life will be incomplete without that plastic tomahawk, chi...ken feather headdress, or rubber horse. Momma would glance at the price tag without really seeing it and say, “No, try this shirt on.”Eventually, dad will get tired of waiting and insert himself back into his parental role. He will remind the wife of their schedule and that they needed to be in Butte, or Boise, or Billings in 5 minutes. She, of. He did not want to use the toilet, for fear of waking either of the girls, so he went outside and peed in back of the cottage. He came back in just in time to see his brother emerge from the bedroom he and Sally were supposed to have been sharing. At four-thirty, Ernest’s alarm watch woke him. He quickly turned it off and quietly got up, found his undershorts which lay at the foot of the bed and slipped them on. Then he stole, as quietly as he could, out into the living area just in time to see. I playfully flipped a broiled pea at Ming hitting her in the cheek. She giggled like a child and flung a cooked flat noodle at me in revenge. The slimy thing stuck right to my forehead! My jaw dropped open and we stared at each other.....then together we laughed so hard and long Stella just shook her head and cleared the table. Ming and I continue to hold our sides and laugh while tears welled on our eyes. In her usual overbearing fashion Stella ejected us from the dining room and suggested we. He was looking for a place too and if this was too small for us, it might work for him.I didn't much care for the neighborhood right from the beginning. The houses on the street were all old and not well maintained. Some of the places were really huge though and it was obvious that at one time this was a very well-to-do area. A few of these houses looked as if they were formally mansions and had probably been beautiful in their day but now everything appeared to be rotting away from the inside.