Mama's Boy

After they found Wilbur James Jr.'s daddy dead with that smile on his face, things went a little haywire in the McLemore household. Wilbur's mama, Hazel, went through a real short period of grieving due to the nature of where they found Senior. Her attachment to Junior come to be real strong. There were talk that she nursed him till he were nigh on to four year old. But them was just rumors, I ain't got not proof or nothing. One thing what were real clear is the hold she had over her boy. He were a good-looking kid and the girls was always trying to get close to him, but mama warn't gonna have none of that. She kept him well under control until he were a senior in high school and then all of a sudden she dropped dead. Now imagine you're driving a car and you got one foot on the gas and the other on the brake. And all of a sudden you pull your foot off the brake. That's what happened with Wilbur James. He took to smoking and drinking and running around with womens older than him. That were about the time Leddie Sue were turning toward beauty on the scale of life. Wilbur were smitten and within in a year they was married. Turned out Leddie Sue had her eye on him all the time she were in her plain, homely state and when he started noticing her she were ready for action. Next time we gonna look at how Wilbur couldn't quite shake his old ways.