THE PING PONG TABLE

I remember while we were enjoying our pool table, Clyde had an idea of getting a ping pong table.  Dad wouldn't agree with it cause there wasn't enough room in the basement for two game tables.
When school turned out the next day, instead of waiting in the bus line for the bus, I always went out in town and looked around in the stores.  While I was looking around in Sykes Drug Store, I noticed they had kits that read "Turn Your Pool Table Into a Ping Pong Table" on the outside of it. What a coincident!
I counted how many kits there were.  Somewhere around this time period, my sixth-grade teacher, Oma Belcher, who was also Clyde's first-grade teacher, was the cashier out there. When I got finished looking around I started back to the bus line.

When I got home and we were at the dinner table eating supper I said, "Clyde, Sykes Drug Store sells kits were you can turn a pool table into a ping pong table."
The next day when school turned out, I wanted to know if Clyde took my advice and purchased one of them. I didn't think the kits would be good sellers, cause hardly nobody had pool tables.  When I got out there I counted the kits and, sure enough, one of them was gone. I said to myself, "I am going to guess when I get home Clyde will have that pool table turned into a ping pong table.” I was right!
I remember we never had four people playing at the same time.  The kit came with four paddles.  I got one of them and took it up into the house and used it to play a paddle game with Michelle.  I have to admit, seems like she got just as much enjoyment out of me playing paddle with her as the enjoyment we got out of the ping pong table.

Sherry