Mom and Pop had this nickname for Aunt Stacie: Slurpee.
I always thought it sounded pretty funny, and Aunt Stacie grinned an evil grin when they called her that.
But none of them would ever divulge the provenance.
One night when she was visiting for a week on Pop’s birthday, I went for a drink of water at 2 a.m.
I heard some noise upstairs, so crept up to peek in her open door.
There the three of them were…Slurpee working the back, and Mom the front.
That gave me a high bar goal for birthday celebrations, you can bet.





