• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      I had just dropped my son off at daycare. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you’d say. Ah, there’s an interesting story behind that nickel…

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I wasn’t AT work, but I would have been if the attack was 4 hours later.

      They called off my work that day.