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DO YOU KNOW WHAT BEING
IN THE SILLY STAGE MEANS?? WELL I??™M NOT SURE I CAN
GIVE YOU A DEFINITION IN WORDS BUT I KNOW IT WHEN I
SEE IT, AND APPARENTLY SO DO A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE,
EVEN KIDS.
EVER SINCE JOHNNIE AND
I HAVE HAD GRAND KIDS, I??™VE CALLED HER SILLY PUTTY.?
THAT??™S BECAUSE WHEN SHE IS AROUND THEM SHE ACTS SILLY
FOR A GROWN WOMAN.? JOHNNIE WOULD GET DOWN ON THE
FLOOR AND TRY TO STAND ON HER HEAD TO MAKE THE GRAND
KIDS LAUGH.? MAYBE SHE WOULD MAKE FUNNY FACES AT
THEM,? ? ANYTHING TO MAKE THEM LAUGH.
THEN ALONG CAME GREAT
GRAND KIDS AND JOHNNIE WAS EVEN WORSE WITH THEM.?
CHIVONA OUR FIRST GREAT GRAND KID WOULD TELL JOHNNIE,
???YOU??™RE SILLY!??? AND SHE WAS
THE OTHER DAY JOHNNIE
WENT TO THE GROCERY STORE.? AS SHE WAS PUSHING HER
BASKET CART DOWN THE AISLE, SHE PASSED ANOTHER BASKET
CART.? THIS CART HAD A BABY IN IT AND JOHNNIE COULDN??™T
HELP BUT STOP AND COOGICOO AT THIS BABY.? SHE MADE A
FUNNY FACE AT THE BABY TRYING TO GET IT TO LAUGH.
THE BABY??™S MOTHER CAME
BACK TO THE CART AND JOHNNIE TOLD HER WHAT A CUTE BABY
SHE HAD.? JUST THEN A LITTLE GIRL OF ABOUT FIVE YEARS
OLD AND A BOY OF ABOUT SEVEN YEARS OLD WALKED UP TO
THE CART.? JOHNNIE ASKED THE LADY IF THOSE TWO WERE
HERS ALSO AND THE LADY SAID THEY WERE.
JOHNNIE ASKED THE
LITTLE GIRL WHAT HER NAME WAS AND THE LITTLE GIRL TOLD
HER.? JOHNNIE SAID THAT WAS A BEAUTIFUL NAME FOR A
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL.? THEN SHE ASKED THE LITTLE BOY
WHAT HIS NAME WAS AND HE TOLD HER HIS NAME.? JOHNNIE
SAID THAT WAS A VERY MANLY NAME FOR SUCH A YOUNG BOY.?
THEN SHE WENT ON DOWN THE AISLE GATHERING HER
GROCERIES.
IT WASN??™T LONG BEFORE
THE TWO CARTS PASSED EACH OTHER AGAIN AND JOHNNIE
WAVED AT THE LITTLE BOY AND LITTLE GIRL, SMILED AND
SAID, ???HELLO AGAIN!???? THE KIDS WAVED BACK AND TOLD HER
HELLO.
THE THIRD TIME THE
CARTS PAST EACH OTHER JOHNNIE DID THE SAME THING
AGAIN.? SHE WAVED AT THE KIDS AND SAID HELLO FOR THE
THIRD TIME.? THE KIDS GAVE HER A BLANK STARE AND THEN
THE LITTLE GIRL TURNED TO HER MOTHER AND SAID, ???SHE??™S
IN THE SILLY STAGE.???
JOHNNIE DUCKED HER HEAD
AND HEADED FOR THE CHECK OUT STAND.? SHE FIGURED SHE
COULD COME BACK TOMORROW AND GET TO REST OF THE
GROCERIES ON HER LIST.
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