January
11. 2017
Coincidental
Acquaintance - “juanfen”
I have begun substitute
teaching for Escco.org, which includes a few northeastern Franklin and Delaware
school districts. I finished yesterday
at Olentangy Orange Middle School and, unawares, left by a different
entrance. The school busses were lined
up to return the students home and it did not appear familiar as to my parking
area. After a little of my confusion, the busses pulled out and only two
teachers and myself remained. One was so
nice in approaching me to inquire of my apparent mystery. She walked me back into the building to show
me the way to the visitors’ lot.
Nice people always pull on
Jeanie’s and my own heart strings when they show infectious smiles. I told her the quick ‘line’ Jeanie and I have
often repeated to waitresses or new acquaintances:
“Is your mother still
living? If yes, one of us will say: I am
accusing her. That always gets a
questionable return. Our response is: She gave you pills when you were only so big,
using our hand to show a one or two-year-old in height. What pills? Is the inevitable response of the
surprised person. Nice Pills is our
answer. The person smiles again and we
say it shows in your smile. Please
continue doing it all of your life.”
I might add to ‘tell your mother
if you see her”. . . (sadley, Mrs.
Hoskins’ mother had passed), that a ‘young curly-headed fellow accused her (I
am eighty-four and bald and sometimes must remove my hat to verify).
Well, after this long segue’
for my few readers here, in my having this chance after-school encounter yesterday,
I asked the young teacher her name.
Hoskins, she replied. I knew
Hoskins in southern Ohio- Portsmouth, I said.
I know Hoskin’s there she told me, in fact you may have known Ramey
Hoskins.
With my mouth agape, I
said: I certainly do! Ramey was a favorite contributor to my www.skegley.blogsspot.com SamKat blog. I
was so saddened in October 2015, when another Portsmouth friend sent me his
obituary from the Portsmouth Daily Times.
I had worked with Ramey at Goodyear Atomic Corporation and began
emailing with him when I began my blog in August 2008.
I could not have anticipated
this young teacher’s response. She is the
wife of Tim (I believe) Hoskins, Ramey’s son.
I looked up “serendipity” by
computer thesaurus, which I had understood was ‘the happy finding of something
you weren’t searching for when on a different quest’. I searched further and found “juanfen” which
better suited this occasion.
I, in my very humble, heterosexual
self, openly declared to her that “I love Ramey “Sonny” Hoskins! He gave me so many good Christian
Conservative emails and allowed me to use them in my blog. I really miss the guy!
If you Southern Ohioans had
not met him, you missed out in knowing an intelligent and very good person.
I still consider myself quite
lucky in my life’s acquaintances, especially Jeanette Weddington, “Jeanie” or
“Beautiful” to whom I have been married sixty-five years this nineteenth, just
a week from today.
Cut it out, you lucky
emotional dog, Sam Kegley!
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