"Just Me and Thee"
Heroes Remember
"Just Me and Thee"
Something happened last week... When we went to George Merrits
funeral which was about two weeks ago, I didn't know any of the
rest of his family, but I talked to George quite a lot on the
telephone. I haven't been driving the car for 10 years myself so
we didn't get to see one another that often but we'd do a lot
of talking on the phone. And my sister, my last sister died,
when my second last sister died, my last sister said to me,
"Well John, there is only me and thee." So I said something
to her, "Sis, I'll be here longer then you are." Whatever.
She was older than I was. Well I was talking to George Merrit
shortly after that, this was about 1994-95 and I said to George
that my sister died, the last one and she said to me, "John
there is me and thee." I'm the only one that's thee of,
it's me now. He says, "John, I'll bet you that, a bottle
of scotch, that I'll be here, that me will be here longer than
thee". And it's been a joke with us kind of all the time since.
When I went to his funeral, didn't know a soul, not a soul.
But I went around and talked to a few people, I wanted to talk
to his daughter if I could find her. And I stopped one fella,
he said, "Well I'm his nephew." So I sat and talked with him
and I just said to him, in the course of our conversation,
I said, "You know George and I had a bet with me and I don't
know how the hell I'm going to collect it. We bet a bottle of
scotch that I'd be here longer than he would or bet me."
Well the guy laughed, chuckled and so forth. Last Sunday,
the doorbell rang, I was home by myself. I answer the door
and a man was standing there with a parcel in his hand and
a letter and he hands me the letter. He said, "I'm Fred Merrit,
and I'm just paying off a debt."
Interviewer: Wow.
And the letter, I mean it's something special. He had known
about this and he was the executor and was repaying, bought
me the bottle of scotch.
Interviewer: That's a nice story.
Yeah.
Interviewer: Very nice ending.
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