Old Fashioned Fun and Pranks
When we first moved to Forest, there were 2 small rental houses on Whiteway Farm property. Before Dad built our house up on Meadow Hill Drive, we lived in one. Our next door neighbor was a young couple I'm sure you all remember, Coach Haywood Reeves. My friend Joy Lackey lived about 100 yards away in the Lackey home. One weekend she had invited Laurie Lee over and somehow the 3 of us got together on the farm on a Friday or Saturday night and decided to play a prank. Remember the old trick of lighting a paperbag of dog poo on someone's porch and then running. Well since we lived on a horse farm, it made sense to use horse manure instead. As we sat there pondering the trick, one of them spoke up and said, "How will we get it into the paper bag?" I replied, "Well, we could use a spatula". For some reason (I guess because it sounded so dumb), Laurie found it hilarious and couldn't quit laughing. She laughed so loud, the porchlight of the Reeves house came on and we ran as fast as we could away from there. Didn't get the prank completed but its one of my memories of Joy who left this earth way before her time and Forest lost a great person that made a mark on the community of Forest in everything she did. Rest in Peace my friend.
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