This story aint too funny--then maybe it is. I started Elgin High School in 1970 as a junior...Didnt seem like it at the time but looking back it was full of what you might call strange ducks.....To start off the building was built in 1929 and had been condemned for two years.. There was several teachers that had come over from the old high school. One of the teachers, a half Choctaw Indian, Mr. W.E.S. Dickerson offered to supply the gas and matches if we would set fire to it. We had two good Elvis impersonators that would bust into Heartbreak Hotel between classes. One even went so far as to stop at the gas station every morning and buy three cans of hair spray to keep his Elvis hair just right. Mostly kids just tried to keep a low profile and stay out of trouble. There was one short, chunky, non-descript sort of kid that decided he didnt want to be low profile....or else he was just a little over the edge...who knows...One day he shows up wearing a white t-shirt and covering most of the front was a huge blue circle completely colored in with blue magic marker....and he saysFrom now on yall call me The Blue Dot. And thats what we did. You could hear somebody down the hallway holler--BLUE DOT--and this kid would puff out his chest and grin real big--he was somebody, he was - THE BLUE DOT. Now one day The Blue Dot and this other kid got a mad on for one another and was going to fight. We set it up on the lunch hour between the school and Quick and Slick grocery........Now both my Grandpas had taught us a way to settle a disagreement real fast without too much bodily injury....What you do is each boy cuts a switch, faces in opposite directions, and locks left elbows together...There is some switching and a whole lot of spinning and usually ends up with laughing, at least by your Grandpa. With a lot of hoop-la we set this fight up as a Texas Belt Match....Only thing is these yayhoos were so mad at each other that when they locked arms they both decided to use the belt buckles---and they werent little ones either.....Somebody said-GO--and these boys started walloping each other on top of the head. About three licks apiece and that was the end of it........Now I always wonder if they knocked any sense into each other.....and if The Blue Dot is still known as the Blue Dot.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:22:17 +0000
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