When Ethel Puckett Was Kim Carll
....and Silas wasn't even dreamed of yet : )
Here's a picture you might find interesting -
It's obvious who the gorgeous brunette is, but you might not know that the guy with the hair is me.
This is the photograph that accompanied our engagement announcement in the Decatur (AL) Daily newspaper.( A newspaper is like a web page that you hold in your hand, and, instead of clicking the links, you turn the pages, like a book - except that the pages aren't bound together. After you're done with the newspaper, you put it down for your puppy to poop on, or - if he doesn't poop on it - you roll it up and hit him with it). I still remember the announcement -
I was a real catch, lemme tell you - just off my second marriage, working in a copper tubing mill (having been in and out of the local community college for ten years or so) driving a Trans-Am (this was 1980's Alabama, remember) - Kimmer (as she was called at the time) was rolling the dice big time.
Mr. And Mrs. Charles J Carll, of Upland, IN, are totally mystified as to why they should announce the engagement of their daughter, Kimberly Renee' Carll, to that no-good guy she moved in with last January. The nuptials will occur at Point Mallard Chapel on September 19th, over Charles J. Carll's dead body.
The bride is a graduate of Eastbook High School in Upland, IN, and attended Ball State University. The groom dropped out of Decatur High School (or was run out - the records have been tampered with) before dropping out of Calhoun Community College, after which he enlisted in the US Army, serving time with distinction in the Correctional Custody Facility, before sobering up (however briefly) somewhere in the wastelands of Texas.
Officiating at the ceremony will be Doak-something-or-other, a "minister" from Unity or Unitarian Universalist or one of those hippie churches. If the parents of the bride are unable to intervene, the happy couple will be honeymooning at Casey Key, off the coast of Florida, even though that one guy she dated in high school would have taken her to Niagra Falls.
I wonder if she ever looks back at pictures of us back then, and then looks at me now, and thinks the same thing that I think when I look at pictures of us back then, and look at me now : )
I probably am...that is if you are thinking, "Thank you God for Jimpuckett. What did I do right to deserve such a wonderful man" (but you would have to change the words to mean Kimpuckett and woman!!)
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Do you still get a thrill when you see me comin' up the hill?
Honey, now do ya'...?
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Jim and Kim,
Great pix!!!
Jim...you look more southern here....like a member of .38 Special(hair would have to be longer)....
Kim....you look like a happy prep girl...very sweet...
A Trans Am...VERY COOL!!! Did it have T-Tops (for the nice days?)...
Your Friend,
Rocco
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Funny - I was thinking I looked more NEANDERTHAL there - my eye sockets were REALLY deep...
And, yes, Rocco, the Trans-Am had t-tops - fudda nahzdayz : )
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Takes me back to the good old days when I lived in B'ham Alabama - which I actually do recall with some fondness - despite being in total shock to see segregation up close and personal. Yankee that I was (and am) I loved the neon sign out in the countryside that said "Jesus Saves, 5 pm".
Y'all remind me of the co-eds at the University riding through B'ham in the convertables after the football game.
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