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36 THEO Twenty years old and you had never touched a woman? You must've been in bad shape. MR.PARKER I'll tell you about it. THEO Here he goes with another one of his famous stories! MR.PARKER I can always go on upstairs, you know. THEO No, Pop, we want to hear it. MR.PARKER Well, I was working in this circus in Tampa, Florida——your mother's hometown. You remember Bob Shepard——well, we had this little dance routine of ours we used to do a sample of outside the tent. One day we was out there doing one of our numbers, when right in the middle of the number I spied this fine, foxy-looking thing, blinking her eyes at me. 'Course ol' Bob kept saying it was him she was looking at, but I knew it was me——'cause if there was one thing that was my specialty, it was a fine-looking woman. THEO You live twenty years of you life not getting anywhere near a woman, and all of a sudden they become your specialty? MR.PARKER Yeah, being that—— THEO Being that you had never had a woman for all them terrible years, naturally it was on your mind all the time. MR.PARKER That's right. THEO And it being on your mind so much, you sorta became a specialist on women? 37 MR.PARKER Right again. THEO (Laughs.) I don't know. But, Pop, I guess you got a point there! MR.PARKER You want to hear this or not!? BOBBY Yeah, go on, Pop, I'm listening. MR.PARKER Well, while I was standing on the back of the platform, I motions to her with my hand to kinda move around to the side of the stand, so I could talk to'er. She strolled 'round to the side, stood there for a while, and you known what? Ol'Bob wouldn't let me get a word in edgewise. But you know what she told him; she said mister, you talk like a fool! (All laugh.) BOBBY That was Mama, all right. MR.PARKER So I asked her if she would like to meet me after the circus closed down. When I got off that night, sure enough, she was waiting for me. We walked up to the main section of town, off to the side of the road, 'cause we had a hard rain that day and the road was full of muddy little ponds. I got to talking to her and telling her funny stories and she would laugh——boy, I'm telling you that woman could laugh! THEO That was your technique, huh? Keep 'em laughing! MR.PARKER Believe it or not, it worked——'cause she let me kiss her. I kissed her under this big ol' pecan tree. She could kiss too. When that woman kissed me, somethin' grabbed me so hard and shook me so, I feel flat on my back into a big puddle of water! And that woman killed herself laughing!
