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Shrinking Violet lives in my heart.
2004-07-10 - 12:34 a.m.

For those of you who may not know, there was a cartoon character in the ahhhh..(ahem) 60s (Shut Up!) named Shrinking Violet. I LOVED Shrinking Violet. She was a little girl with long blonde ponytails, who was so shy that when someone talked to her, she�d shrink.

I had a Shrinking Violet Doll that I dearly loved. (BTW�.One just sold on eBay for $129�.2 on there now are at over $100 and still climbing, and they are VERY rare.) She was made of cloth with yellow hair of yarn, and could talk. When you pulled the string to make her speak, her mouth moved and her eyelashes fluttered. She said such things as:

Please help me talk to people.

Will you take care of me?

I have butterflies in my tummy.

I wish I was brave like you.

I�m afraid of noisy boys.

Shrinking Violet was my bestest friend in the WHOLE Wide World! As a tiny blonde little girl, who was painfully, painfully shy, and wore a size 3 when others her age wore a 6x (YEAH, yeah, eventually I more than caught up. Shut Up!) I could greatly identify with this homely little doll. (Can you see a resemblance?) I carried Shrinking Violet around for years, as to me, she was a very real, living, breathing person, until��.

My Cousin Jamie would occasionally spend the weekend with us. Now Jamie is one year and one day older than me, but was meannnnn beyond his years. He was a real �Eddie Haskell�. For those who don�t know, he was a kiss-ass kid on a show called �Leave It To Beaver�. I just realized that if you were to see that title today, it�d probably be found on the cover of a Porno Video�but I digress. Anyways�� My Cousin Jamie was all �Sweetness Joy and Light� around the adults, but a real Holy Terror behind their backs.

This particular Summer-time weekend Mom and Dad took us 3 kids (including my older brother) all to the beach. I was so excited as I had just gotten a brand new �strapless� bikini, which was a miniature version of my Aunt Beverly�s, which I adored and mimicked every chance I got. Every chance Jamie got, when no grown was in sight, he�d pull down the top of my bathing suit and laugh hysterically yelling, �You ain�t got no tittieeeessss, You ain�t got no tittieesssss� (Wonder what he said if he saw me today. Haaaaaa.) As you can imagine, this was DEVESTATING for me. I told you, HE WAS ROTTEN! Rotten to the core, and his core was rotten too!

As soon as we got back home, I ran to my room and scooped up Shrinking Violet (Mom said Shrinking Violet told her she wanted to stay home and take a nap.) Soon, my Cousin appeared with a sheepish grin on his face. He smiled and asked (in front of my parents) if he could please hold her. I told him �No�, but Dad, not knowing Jamie like I did, told me I should share.

True to his nature, as soon as my Parents left the room, Jamie started throwing Violet up into the air, banging her against the ceiling with every toss. The more he did it, the more I cried, and the more he laughed. THENNNN�..I grabbed her by her voice string, started spinning her around and around until suddenly, her string broke.

She could no longer talk. I was in shock. She was DEAD!!!! I cried for days and days. My Mom, Dad, and Brother even had a funeral service for her thinking that would make me feel better (it didn�t). Dad dug a little hole and laid her, enclosed in a shoebox in it. I walked away sobbing as I could not bare the thought of watching him throw dirt on my �Bestest Friend in the Whole Wide World�. Unbeknownst to me, Mom had picked her up and she was stored in the attic for years, yet Mom never said a word.

A few years ago, Dad was going up into the attic to retrieve some things. Mom yelled out to him, �Bring down the surprise we have for QT.� I saw the box and felt instant recognition wash over me. My heart raced wildly as tears of joy ran down my face. Dad handed me the box. For some reason there was a hole in the side. When I opened the box, expecting once again, to see my Bestest�� A rat had gotten into the box and eaten off her entire face! It wasn�t pretty.

Damn that Jamie! Damn that rat!

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