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Show PRESTON PORAT 24,2001 there, and we received ration coupons for bread, sugar, and for meats. Wed give the sugar and meats to the Relief Society and most of our bread, too, because they were feeding us. You know, all we had to do was breakfast. And yogurt wasn't rationed, and we'd eat yogurt for breakfast a lot. And some of the delicious buns. So anyway, I came home and dated. But the frrst Sunday I was home I went to a ward frreside. They used to have firesides in the evening, and had one down at Archie He ugly's. Archie and I were the only men there, and there were about twenty girls. Well, after church one of the girls in our ward I had known before was ill, so I went over to visit her, and I said, "Hey, would you like to go to that fireside at night?" So I took her to the fireside. I had a car, so I picked her up and took her to the fireside. But here were twenty other girls-I'm not going to notice any. I mean, I took a girl; it would be impolite to notice anybody else, really. Not that I was dating this girl, she didn't mean a thing to me, other than she was sick and I was doing her a favor-just being a good Samaritan I guess you could say. So I then went to the bakeshop to earn a little more money. I'd been sending my money home so I had money enough for my mission. Dad had it in the bank for me, and so I had money, but I was working at the bakeshop. I'd ride the bus into work and lo and behold, one morning onto the bus got this gorgeous little blonde. She recognized me from the fireside but I didn't recognize her really. I hate to admit it, but I didn't recognize her. I remember now some of the things the girls had said, how terrible the war was. I was telling them how rough it was in the Pacific. "It was so rough out there. We used to fry our French fries in butter, that's how rough the war was. And the butcher used to keep choice cuts of meat in the refrigerator in the bake shop, and we used to eat those for breakfast sometimes, or dinner or anytime we wanted as long as we didn't eat the last 63 |
