THE DAY I WAS THROWN OUT OF THE SEMINAR

Not surprisin,aint it? Annie Mae getting kicked out of the room in front of hundreds of people? Well, Annie Mae isn't doin no tiptoin!

Ya see I brought my grand nephew to this seminar. This little nephew is four years old and he brought his crayons and paper so he'd stay quiet. Well it didn't take but a few minutes before those crayons turned into weapons for Spiderman and his alliances.

So I tend to be occupied when I'm around my little nephew, Bryson. Ya see, I got to keep track of who was the last boyfriend I promised to take gambling and which one I lied to about my Herkimer Diamonds, and which one I promised I'd let him come upstairs. So Bryson wasn't payin me much attention when I'd come around. I'd say,"Hi fella!" And he'd turn and look the other direction.

So the day he and I were asked to leave the seminar room, cause Spiderman was gettin a little rambunctious, I took him into the hall, thinkin, now what? I just sat there watchin him with his fantasy play. He was making a lot of shootin sounds..reminded me of my saloon. I started thinkin..you know how thinkin gets ya...so I was thinkin..
he's sayin the word 'kill' every other sentence....so I was disapprovin..

Then the lights went on inside my Annie Mae head..he's not being violent..he's being imaginative, the way boys do, the way all my boys used to do before they had to start lookin grown=up. And you would have been so surprised to see Annie Mae take up play with Bryson...shootin away..we were havin play warfare that was so noisy, they might of kicked us out of that place,too!

Since that time, Bryson and I have a special relationship. He'll come to me about anything. He'll pull me aside to play or show me something special he found.