Paying For It
Tomi Jean Cleveland is a regular reader of this blog. I’ve known her since kindergarten. She has the dubious fortune of living in the same town as my father. Yesterday, she sent me this transcript of an encounter with Roy.
Lest my Dear Readers think I make this stuff up…………In Tomi Jean’s own words, I bring you Roy. At the Starbucks. In Florence, South Carolina.
Mr. Roy: Hey, come ere, I gotta talk to ya!
Me: Oh, Hi Mr. Watkins, how are you?
Mr. Roy: Good! You know Andra and her husband, uh, they took me up to TN for my reunion. Yep, I paid all the expenses! We had fun!
Me: I know, I read all about your adventure in Andra’s blog! Sounds like you all had a wonderful time!
Mr. Roy: yea, yea, she wrote about that in her blog?
me: Yes! I loved reading all about it!
Mr. Roy: yep, I paid for the trip and we went up to Lookout Mountain and rode the incline. You ever done that?
me: No sir, can’t say I have, but it sounds like fun! Sorry your wife couldn’t make it.
Mr. Roy: No, no, she don’t like to go to that kinda thing, but had a good time. You know, Andra and her husband, they’re already gone to Colorado!
Me: Well, I know she is enjoying wherever she is! I have to go meet my friends but it was good to see you!
Mr. Roy: yea, okay….how’s that Kellie Rasberry doin? (Tomi Jean and Kellie have been BFF’s since elementary school.)
Me: She’s great, loving TX! I’ll see ya later!
Mr. Roy: ok, bye!
Approximately 30 mins later:
Mr. Roy: Hello Girls! I think I met yall last time! Aren’t you the one who went to UGA?
Michele: Yes, yes I am. How are you?
Mr. Roy: Fine, fine. I was telling her (Pointing to me), my daughter and her husband took me to TN last week for my reunion. They took me and I paid for everything! We went on the incline at Lookout Mtn. You girls ever done that?
Michele and Staci: No, we haven’t.
Mr. Roy: Huh? You haven’t? Andra said it was like breathing the clouds, you know. It was fun!
After about 20 more minutes of talking about the SC vs. GA game, we had to leave. I felt bad telling him we had to go, he was so entertaining! He is a funny man and I love to talk to him! My friends think he is a hoot!
I think Dad is a hoot, too. He goes to the Starbucks in Florence every day, because they give him coffee for fifty cents, and he can run into people like Tomi Jean. Thanks to her for giving both MTM and me a tears-streaming-down-our-faces laugh.
Starbucks gives your dad 50¢ coffee? Baristas with ♡, that’s what they are!
I know. He is a charmer.
It sounds like you love your Dad a lot – which is a nice thing:)
Dad is hard not to love, Roger. Everybody loves him.
I gotta find me one of those 50 cents Starbucks, maybe Roy can come and live with you guys in Charleston and be my wing man. Bwaaa Haaaa Haaaa.
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Dad can’t stand the water. Plus, we don’t have a television, blocking him from ever visiting.
Wow, I had forgotten you folks don’t fill your minds with the endless stuff on the idiot box. Good for you.
Lovely post, and she sounds great, but I can’t get past the 50 cents Starbucks coffee. That’s like the awards show giving millionaire actors/actresses 50 thousand dollar gift bags. wow
I don’t know how he does it, Lance. He has an Old Man Crew that he drinks coffee with every day. They move locations if the coffee becomes too expensive or they can’t get refills. They seem to have settled on Starbucks. Their voodoo magic cheapo charms must work there.
Roy sounds like a hoot to me, too, Andra.
I was so glad Tomi Jean agreed to let me share the transcript of her message to me, Penny.
New life goal: to be enough of a hoot that the baristas give my $0.50 coffee.
Come hang out with Dad. He will show you how.
Hilarious once again! I’m so glad he “paid for everything.” Aren’t you? Hahahaha! Have a wonderful weekend, Andra. You’ve been a busy girl!
He is telling people that because of my blog post.
This message from Tomi Jean was too funny not to share.
I paid for it all…priceless. Makes me wish I lived closer to Charleston.
I wish you did, too, Lori.
I can’t believe you lied to us all and told us you paid. We all believe Roy. We all know dads would never have their daughters pay for anything.
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is the tongue of an ungrateful child.” That would be you! Write about that in your blog.
I would never describe Andra as an ungrateful child. (Whap!)
Lol…you were just kidding, right?
I am not a liar. Dad paid for the incline. That is true.
Poke, poke. poke, poke…..
Wow, .50 cent coffee huh? That is just unheard of today. Roy must have cast some sort of spell on that place. Lol. I loved that picture of him. Priceless
He casts spells everywhere he goes, James.
Classic, Andra, just classic. What an amazing man. A walking novel.
I am counting on it, Kate.
Well, I can officially say I have ridden the incline. And it is SO neat.
What is he WEARING in that photo? He looks like a cross between a witch and a cowboy.
Your father sounds like a hoot and a half.
He is.