Reply #23: Went to the French Quarter in1990 [View All]

[erinlough]

I went with my son, my brother in law and my sister, who just died last January.

I've been thinking alot about our time together on that trip and how funny she was on Bourbon street.

We would go into all the tshirt shops and talk to the clerks. Nan had this innocent way about her and she would ask questions about the special stuff in the shops that made the clerks laugh and give her things.

For instance she saw these ties that she thought had fingers printed on them and she asks the clerk why they had fingers on them. He holds one up and the "fingers" were penises. She acted all embarrassed, but really, I think she knew all the time.

In another place she got a special book of matches with a naked woman on the front from the clerk because she was asking who would actually buy the 4 ft. dildo in the window.

We had the greatest time and I bought a book of poetry from a street vendor named Frank Smith, I wonder where he is now. We all talked about his life for a long time.