my guest author is my dad
Some people smoke “roll your own cigarettes”. They get their tobacco out of a little cloth sack that says, “Bull Durham.”
Why is it called that? I don’t know.
Ernest smokes ready made cigarettes. They are named SPUDS. He smokes them because they have menthol in them, which helps the cough that he gets from smoking cigarettes.
When I was about three years old I found a package of Ernest’s cigarettes. I coughed twice and decided to help my cough.
I put the cigarette in my mouth and went to the house to show my mother how big I was. She took the cigarette away from me and told me that cigarettes would stunt my growth.
Did you know that?
One time, two of our cousins came up with some girls from town. The girls had a package of cigarettes, and we went out behind the barn to smoke them. That night, when Daddy came home, he looked at me and said, “Your eyes are red. When you want to smoke another cigarette, just tell me, and I’ll get them for you. And remember, they will stunt your growth.”
It is serious business when your father tells you something and it’s already too late.
The author as a little boy and his dad
note from the bloggist:
I was told by my father that coffee that stunted my growth.
It’s a good thing I didn’t snitch cigarettes.