Leonard’s Legacy

Sayings that I Grew up with

I have no earthly idea where any of these sayings came from. I do know that I grew up with them, and they pretty well cover nearly every facet of my life. Some of them are about a girls looks and a boy’s brain, or the lack of one.

OK, get you a cup of coffee or tea and kick your shoes off and just set back and enjoy them. I’m pouring them right out just as they come to mind. Now if you moved down here from up north, you may need some help. Don’t worry about the punctuation, spelling, or sentence structure.

The Blue Ribbon Parade

When I was in Grammar School, the Blue Ribbon Parade was the most important thing in my life, however, there were way too many rules associated with it. For instance, each student had to complete a form starting the first day of school and running all the way to May, when the event was held.

Every school in the city and the county was involved in it, and each teacher kept a scorecard on every student.

Here are just a few things that we were graded on daily:

1. Eat at least three leafy vegetables. (It didn’t tell you how much.)


2. Drink at least three glasses of milk. (It didn’t tell you what size.)


3. Eat some kind of meat. (Did the pork in pork and beans count?)


4. Drink two quarts of water. (How are you going to tell when you are drinking out of a water fountain?)


5. Eat two kinds of fruit. (I guess you could qualify…

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The Car Dealers and the Wheel Dealers (the Counts and the No Accounts)

Main Street from the Public Square to Five Points was only two blocks long, but the 80/20 rule was in operation way back then. I don’t care what you wanted or what you needed, you could get it there or someone there could get it for you, and usually it was of good quality and at a reasonable price.

This applied to everything. If you wore it, ate it, drank it, planted it, harvested it, listened to it, talked through it, painted with it, built with it, heated with it, cooled with it, sold it, bought it, borrowed from it, saved in it, married in it, divorced in it, read it, read by it, looked at it, looked in it, washed with it, dried with it, learned in it, learned from it, lay by it, swam in it, drove it, rode in it, repaired it, washed it, dried it, painted it,…