"New Shoes"

Tales From The Simons Brickyard

By Frank Baltazar

My friend Richard came from a big family, 7-8 kids and like most people in Simons it was hard on Richard’s parents to buy new clothes/shoes for all the kids at once, one at a time the parents clothed their children. I mention before that we kids would built a fire every night in Simons, one night we are at the fire and one of Richard’s younger brothers kept putting his foot on a burning log, he had just gotten a new pair of shoes and none of the guys had said “hey, nice shoes”, by putting his foot on the burning log he was hoping that we would notice that he had new shoes, well we all notice alright, his shoe caught on fire!….