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HOW DO YOU DEAL?
By Jeana Esser


A welcomed blast…..from the past

It was several years ago when I ran into her at a local Albertsons. I had just gotten finished spinning some yarn to my then elementary aged daughter, about a woman who used to look after me, and my mother to a certain extent. There is a certain karma that happens when you are thinking about a person, and then lo and behold, that person suddenly appears. That was Virgie.
I must have been about 4 or nearly 5 when she came into our lives. My mother had been through a couple of housekeeper/babysitters before Virgie came along. I distinctly remember this one woman who was pretty ancient at the time but she seemed nice enough or so I thought. It wasn't like my mother worked full-time or anything (my dad never let her because she had a job, which was me) but she did bowl twice a week and had errands to run and beauty shop appointments to keep. However, she needed some relief, as most mothers do, so she hired this "retched crone" to keep an eye on me for a few hours a week. I say this because my mom came home one day to find "Miss. S." sound asleep and during her nap, I had decided to take a stroll down Sherwood Forest Boulevard, alone. Luckily mom found me a few blocks down the road unscathed.
Did I mentioned that she somehow managed to make out with half of my wardrobe on the way out? Needless to say, that was the end of Miss S's employ.
Then, there was Marie, who was a Nazi with an apron. She did not last too long either, one or two days I believe. Then came Virgie. We had a good feeling about her. She just smelled nice. She was the kind of woman that you wanted to be next to….to sit in her lap….to watch television with…to share a coke and a bag of chips with. And we did. As the years rolled by, she remained with us through good times and bad. She was a vault of information and came to be one of my mom's best friends. I think she may have spent more time watching the soaps and cleaning out our fridge (which was what most people did when they came into our house), and that was okay.
I recall a time when I was fifteen and I had just gotten my driver's license (things were different back then) and got my first ticket only 2 weeks after that for speeding in a school zone
(radar never lies). I thought I was going to be able to keep that secret for awhile but I was wrong. When I came home from school that afternoon, my mom asked if anything new happened today and I said "no". I should have known that my mom was always one step ahead of me. Virgie had passed me on the boulevard whilst I was getting the ticket and she ratted me out.
I think I was pretty angry with Virgie at the time, but she really did do the right thing. My punishment was having John E. Law take my driver's license for 30 days, which was way worse than anything my mother could have done. That hurt.
When my mother breathed her last breath on this earth, I sat in the kitchen staring blankly at the phone wondering who to call. I called Virgie. She came right over. She closed mom's eyes then I sat in her lap and wept like a baby at the age of 25.
Just the other day Virgie called me and told me that she reads my "How Do You Deal" article every month, but that she especially liked my article for June, which had a picture of me and my mother. She knew us back then. I am so thankful that she is still gracing us with her presence on this earth, because there were times that I did not know where to find her. We lost touch some time ago and I was worried that she, like my mother, grandmother and so many others close to me have left this earth. But she is like the Eveready bunny. We plan to get together soon and talk about old times. Maybe we'll watch something mindless on the telly together and raid the fridge.
 
 

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