March 1, 1936

It turned out that Sweet Pea was really somebody's living room that had been decorated up real nice. That's where I met Miss Thomas, too. She was asking me a bunch of questions and I kept giving her a bunch of answers. I think she was tryin' to figure out how Herman E. Calloway was my daddy. When she asked me to explain how my mama let me know that Herman E. Calloway was my daddy, I didn't know how to answer. Right then Miss Tyla brought in our food and I was glad for that. Miss Thomas said she would finish questioning me tomorrow. The word "tomorrow" let me know that they really did plan on keeping me here for a while.

I ate my plate of food and, boy, it was the best meal I had ever had! I even had a desert called "On the House" and it was the best pie I ever had! Once I got done eating I started looking around and I got to thinking about all these people around me. One second I was laughing my head of, and the next second I was crying like a baby. I don't know what happened to me. Miss Thomas held me while I cried and that's when I knew I was home.

After we left the restaurant, we went to a house that they call Grand Calloway Station. It was named after the Grand Central Station in New, York City and that's where we were staying. Miss Thomas showed me to my room and I got real nervous. I asked Miss Thomas if the girl who's room it was would get mad if she knew I was sleeping in her bed. She told me not to worry because the girl was gone.

Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funnier Life and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 28:

Gone=Dead

I was going to be sleeping in a dead girl's room! When I looked around the room I saw one of those doggone Ticonderoga pencils (like the one Todd Amos stuck up my nose). I could smell the rubber all over again.

The bed had two sheets so I climbed under the covers to see what sleeping under two sheets felt like. Next thing I knew, I was fast asleep!