How Bud and I met

Joining Lynnett today with walking down memory lane.

Yesterdays episode in Central Park Downtown Decatur reminded me of what happened to me Downtown 31 years ago on April 30.

I do not know why I was going downtown that day, but I clearly remember parking my car and feeding my meter. When I heard someone hollering "Hey YOU" I looked around and the guy was pointing at me.

I was a lot younger---perhaps a bit paranoid--- I don't know, but I do know at that moment I was scared. And that doesn't seem like me to be afraid.

I ignored the man--after all I didn't know him, why should he holler at me. I proceed to go down the walk and around the corner. Was probably headed for the Kresse Store (5&10 cent store) Since I did a lot of shopping there.
Glancing over my shoulder - I can see that this guy is following me. All the while he is still hollering at me. And I an hear him come closer. OH BOY--what am I to do? I speed up my walk a bit thinking I must hurry.

I rounded the corner and sped up my walk some more thinking....Where can I duck or hide from this guy. I don't know who the creep is.

OH YES-- Right here is Barker Shoes - I have purchased tons of shoes in there and there is always a man on duty..... So I fly into the shoe store and head for the very back of the store. Ducking in behind the shoe rack and still being able to peep at the front door to see if the guy saw which store I was in.

A young man ask if he could help me. I remember saying--- "well ya, and especially if that guy that is following me comes in here."
He chucked and said, "Let him come in, I'll deal with him"
So, we began talking, and one subject lead to another. I found out that he lived just around the corner from my house and his sister had just come home from the hospital with her baby boy who was 3 days old.

(The man who hollered at me passed the store front, trying to see in to see if he could see me, but he never came in) Thank God!

I do not remember all of our conversation, but do know that later that evening we went to see the new baby at his mother's house. (The start of a friendship)?
OH YES, It ended up in much more then that.
That young man is not so young anymore, but he has been my husband for over 30 years.

So, when people ask me how Forrest (Known as Bud) and I met, we both have to laugh and remember how we met that day in the shoe store when a street person in downtown Decatur was following me. So after the street lady wanted money yesterday to buy food when I was in the park, I chuckle and remember another time when I was downtown, within 2 blocks of where the shoe store used to be and once again someone is hollering or confronting me for something.

NO photos, just memories that we laugh at whenever we think of how we met.