Teddy Coconut

“My Uncle Teddy’s was brown and brass and he used to pick me and my cousins up every day from elementary school” said Hansel ” It didn’t matter how bad a day we’d had, it all turned around when we got in that van. It had a naked lady on the side. All the other kids thought it was cool. We’d jump in and go to the ice cream truck and then we’d get home and watch cartoons. The next day, we’d do it all again”

Hansel was talking about his Uncle Teddy’s Ford Econoline Winnebago, a vehicle of some vintage back in the early 1990s. Hansel now owns his own Winnebago, which is coconut white and twenty years old. He is outside jump-starting the battery now and hopes to put another 50,000 miles on the odometer(which already reads 147,000) as soon as the hole in the exhaust and the oil leak is fixed. If not, he can sleep in Teddy Coconut. Getting from A to B? It’s much  overrated.

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About blarneycrone

Irish, idiosyncratic and often in your face, the Blarney Crone lives in Itchy Ankle, on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, she has family in the UK and Ireland and two young adult children who are American through and through. She is fortunate in her friends. Her correspondence with Doris Brazil, an elderly retailer in the South of England, has propelled this blog to readership unimagined by either lady writer. The Crone is currently struggling with her weight, enjoying her garden and trying to get her children launched in life. Please read on.
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One Response to Teddy Coconut

  1. judy kelly says:

    Hansel really has a find! Not bad for 20 years old and multi-use at that~

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