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TOOTH FAIRY

 

 

 

DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE TOOTH FAIRY?  DID YOU EVER BELIEVE IN THE TOOTH FAIRY?  COME ON NOW FESS UP, WHEN YOU WERE A KID YOU PUT YOUR FIRST TOOTH YOU EVER LOST UNDER YOUR PILLOW AND GOT SOME MONEY FOR IT, DIDN'T YOU?

 

WELL, LAST WEEK WHEN MY GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER, CHIVONA, CAME FOR A VISIT, SHE HAD LOST HER FIRST TOOTH.  SHE'S FIVE YEARS OLD.  I ASKED HER IF SHE HAD PUT THE TOOTH UNDER HER PILLOW FOR THE TOOTH FAIRY AND SHE TOLD ME SHE HAD.

 

"HOW MUCH MONEY DID HE LEAVE YOU?" I ASKED.

 

"THREE HORSES AND A DOLLAR" CHIVONA ANSWERED.

 

"THREE HORSES AND A DOLLAR!  HOW DID HE GET THREE HORSES UNDER YOUR PILLOW, AREN'T HORSES A LITTLE BIG TO BE IN THE HOUSE?"

 

"NOT THAT KIND OF HORSES, SILLY.  PLAY HORSES."

 

"OH OK, WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE DOLLAR?"

 

"I SPENT IT."

 

I THOUGHT I BETTER END THIS CONVERSATION BEFORE I GOT IN ANY DEEPER.  NO TELLING WHERE IT WAS GOING AFTER THIS. 

 

I GOT TO REMEMBERING WHEN I PUT MY FIRST TOOTH UNDER MY PILLOW.  ALL I GOT WAS A DIME.  BUT THEN THAT WAS ABOUT 1937 AND I THINK I SPENT MY DIME ON BB's FOR MY BB GUN.  TIMES HAVE CHANGED AND INFLATION HAS TAKEN IT TOLL.

 

THEN CHIVONA STARTED TELLING ME HOW SHE HAD MADE $2.50 FROM HER DADDY.  IT SEEMS THAT CHIVONA HAD STARTED PLAYING "T" BALL AT SCHOOL AND HER DADDY DECIDED HE WOULD HELP HER BY WORKING WITH HER AT HOME.

 

HE GOT HER OUT IN THE BACK YARD AND TOLD HER HE WOULD GIVE HER A QUARTER EVER TIME SHE COULD HIT THE BALL PAST HIM.  AFTER THE TENTH TIME, HE DECIDED THAT SHE HAD HAD ENOUGH TRAINING FOR THIS SESSION.  CLINT WENT IN THE HOUSE AND ASKED AMANDA IF SHE HAD $2.50.

 

"OH NO YOU DON'T.  YOU MADE THAT DEAL WITH CHIVONA, YOU PAY HER."

 

I THINK THAT WAS THE ONLY TRAINING SESSION CHIVONA HAD WITH HER DAD.

 

WHAT'S THIS YOUNGER GENERATION COMING TO WHEN EVERY THING BOILS DOWN TO MONEY?

 

THEY WANT MONEY FROM THE TOOTH FAIRY.  THEY WANT MONEY TO PLAY BALL.  THEY WANT MONEY TO DO THEIR HOMEWORK.  THEY WANT MONEY TO HELP AROUND THE HOUSE. THEY WANT MONEY FOR THEIR BIRTHDAY.  THEY WANT MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS.  THEY WANT AN ALLOWANCE.  THEY WANT MONEY FOR COLLEGE.  THEY WANT MONEY TO GET MARRIED.  THEY WANT, THEY WANT, THEY WANT.

 

WELL MY MONEY TREE JUST DIED.  ALL THAT GREEN STUFF ON IT JUST SHRIVELED UP, TURNED BROWN AND FELL OFF.

 

THEN MY GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER HEARD THE ICE CREAM TRUCK COMING DOWN THE STREET PLAYING IT'S MUSIC AND SHE RAN TO ME AND HUGGED MY NECK AND SAID,

 

"DA CAN I HAVE A DOLLAR FOR SOME ICE CREAM?"

 

 

WELL OLD SCROOGE REACHED IN HIS POCKET AND GAVE HER A DOLLAR.  THAT HUG WAS WORTH MORE THEN MONEY.  AFTER ALL WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MONEY, I CAN'T TAKE IT WITH ME.  THEN MY GRAND DAUGHTER, AMANDA, WALKED OVER AND HUGGED ME. 

 

SHE SAID, "YOU OLD SOFTY, I SAW WHAT YOU DID.  THANK YOU.  OH, BY THE WAY I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT ME GOING INTO BUSINESS FOR MYSELF."

 

"OK" I SAID, "HOW MUCH IS THAT GOING TO COST ME?"

 

"OH IT WON'T COST YOU ANYTHING.  I JUST THOUGHT YOU MIGHT COULD LOAN ME $4000.00."

 

"WELL IF IT'S NOT GOING TO COST ME ANYTHING, GO GET MY CHECK BOOK AND A PEN."

 

JOHNNIE HAD BEEN SITTING THERE TAKING ALL THIS IN WITHOUT SAYING A WORD.  AFTER I WROTE AMANDA HER CHECK, JOHNNIE GOT UP AND CAME OVER TO ME AND STARTED TO GIVE ME A BIG HUG.  BUT I PUT UP MY HAND AND SAID FORGET IT THE BANK JUST RAN DRY.  SHE SAID ….. BUT NO THAT'S A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

 

 

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT 2003

LOREN

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