Making the Most of Stuff

Babe, that ain't her real name, got into riding motor cycles back in the fifties when she were a young girl. And she kept it up until the accident in 1995. What happened were she had her mind off the road and run into the back of a stopped garbage truck. Her bike and her slid under the truck and it taken a hour to get her excavated from all that mess. Babe were taken to Harper General Hospital and operated on. Three months later she were let go from the hospital with a metal plate in her head, right in the middle of her forehead. The doctor what did her operation had wanted to be a plastical surgeon and done a real good job. You has to look real close to see anything different from anybody else's forehead. Her husband Buster, that ain't his real name either, are what you might want to call a inventor. He has come up with all kinds of things like disposable coat hangers what will dissolve in water. He claims he made a battery what will keep a charge for years, but it were too big to get anybody interested. Now he ain't one to let any opportunity slide by, so when Babe come home with that metal plate, Buster went to Harper Five and Dime and buyed a whole bunch of them little refrigerator magnets. Ever morning when he goes off to work--Babe sleeps in since her accident--Buster writes out a little note to his wife and leaves it stuck to her forehead with one of them magnets. Some days it has a to do list and some days a reminder for a appointment or meeting. And some days it don't say nothing but" I love you, Babe."