Do You Like Heidi?

I’ve been on the soap box long enough this last week so today let’s have some fun and talk about . . . “Do you like Heidi?”

When my sister Jeanette and I were kids we shared a bedroom. We were pretty bad kids about going to bed and would drive my mother crazy some nights when we were still full of ants in our pants and would be giggling like anything. She’d come in and turn out the lights and tell us to be quiet because our brothers were sleeping in the next room and we were waking them up. But often we were in bed by 7:00 p.m. and weren’t ready to sleep. What do do?

Sometimes we’d make up stories and sometimes we’d tell about our dreams the night before. Often we’d play games and forget about being quiet. One game we liked to play was slipping out from our side of the bed and sliding under the bed and up the other side to scare the other one. You had to be really quiet and gentle to get off the bed without the other one hearing. Mostly we did hear and we’d be ready for the other one. That’s when we’d start laughing and Mom would come in with the wooden spoon. We’d get a few whacks in the butt and out she would go again. Some nights we liked to make a bigger fuss about the whacking and we’d yell our fool heads off and twist and turn, putting our hand (she was holding the other one) over our butt. Of course, she didn’t want to hit our hand so she ended up hardly hitting us at all.

When she left the room we’d ask “Did she get you?” and we’d say “No” and start giggling. Years later Mom told us that she’d be standing outside the door and would hear us talking and giggling. She couldn’t help laughing at us too. LOL

Then we’d sober up and we’d pull the covers over our heads and whisper. Invariably we’d ask the question.

“Do you like Heidi?”

She was one of our playmates and she was a real show-off. Even though we liked playing with her and her sister Cindy we would often be annoyed with Heidi and we’d make fun of her in our bed at night. After a while it got to be a joke when we didn’t know what else to talk about but wanted to stay awake. We’d ask “do you like Heidi?”

Forty years later we still do that when there is a pause in the conversation.

”Do you like Heidi?” J J J