DON DO!
My
little Neice, Tye Morgan Ponder, began the 'Don do!' thang in
our family. She first made that
statement when she was about 18 months old.
It was in response to her Grandmother, Nellie Ponder - my mother-in-law,
teasing her by saying that her Uncle Don did not love her.
About a month later, Tye carried it a tad too far when her Aunt Shirley
asked her how
she had gotten that bruise on her forehead [she had just witnessed Tye falling
and bumping her head] to which Tye replied, 'Don do!'
As she grew older, whenever she had a problem that no one else could
solve to her satisfaction, she repeated, 'Don do!' and then she brought it to
me. It has sort of gotten out of
hand over the years and now my Dorey, Tye
and even Mama Ponder brings every unsolvable, or at least extremely difficult,
problem, predicament, etc to Don because by now everybody in the family knows
that 'Don do!'
It's tradition, don't you know.
Yesterday,
I instructed my wife that I had just figured out
my epitaph for my tombstone and it should give the epitaphs on a couple of
tombstones on Boothill in Tombstone, Arizona a run for the money.
I told her, I want the following
inscription placed on my tombstone:
'Don
don't do no more!'
Don "Brer Bear" Valentine
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