Tales From The Simons Brickyard
By Frank "kiki" Baltazar
Besides animals, everybody in Simons had fruit trees. My grandma, “Mama Lupe”, had a few trees. My cousins, Robert, Jesus and I would steal her apricots when they were still green, we would eat them with salt, man, were they good!. One day she busted us stealing the green apricots, and I knew we were in trouble when she came running out of the house with a belt.
“Come here!” she said to Robert.
She put her hands in Robert’s pockets and pulled the apricots out and whacked him one with the belt. She than called Jesus, and does the same thing, while she is whacking Jesus, I walked to the outhouse and threw my apricots down the hole, when she went through my pockets she didn’t find apricots. But the following day when I went to her house she got a hold of me.
“You thought you were being smart, didn’t you?”. Whack went the belt!
