Aunt Bobbie

January 22 at 3:53pmOkay, you asked for it! I promise I won't bombard you with stories everyday! But since we just had Christmas---When Mama was a girl, her favorite thing to do was to play Dick Tracy. She read every DT comic book she could get her hands on. Bett was always her sidekick--I think she had a name, but I'll have to ask Mama about that again. Anyway, Mama would write out whole scenarios of a crime or a mystery. She would work out all the clues, etc. and then they would play it out. One day her "play" called for them to go up in the hayloft to look for clues. They were carefully scouring the whole loft for clues when they noticed a tarp covering something over in a dark corner. (This unexpected find added a whole new level of excitement to their game!) Staying in character, they crept over to the tarp and lifted it up. There they saw all of their Christmas gifts for that year! Mama said, "We didn't solve a crime that day, but we did solve the mystery of Santa Claus!" That is when she and Bett found out that there isn't a Santa Claus!