Life with George

[JWBear]

Part two:

About a year after we were "going steady" I was invited to a formal dance and George agreed to take me. The big night arrived and I was ready and waiting. I waited and waited and waited but he never show-up for the big event. I was crushed as only a teenager can understand. Remember, no phone in either household and it was the weekend so I would not be able to find out what happened until Mon.
When I went to school on Mon. Dorothy told me that George and his friend Don had been arrested and spent that night in jail. I thought that would be the end of this boyfriend because, when my father heard about it, I would be forbidden to see him again.

Later I leaned that George's mother had bailed both of them out when Don's parents had refused to bail him. The fact that he was one of ten or eleven children was the reason as they just couldn't afford to. (I think.)

Small towns are a great place to grow up in. Yes everyone knows all your business but they keep an eye on you and are ready to help when needed. My father had heard about it early as he played poker with the police chief at the American Legion building. They must have gotten a laugh over the scare those kids had when they were locked up with a drunk and other unsavory characters.
Neither one of them ever got into trouble with the law again.

The reason they were arrested you ask?
They were picking up scrap iron to sell for pocket money and had the misfortune to find some near the IBM building when caught. Yes the same company George worked for later for forty years.

After that they both got jobs and worked for a living the rest of their lives.