I grew up reading the Ramona Quimby books. She still is an iconic character for me! When I was young, my Mom would rent Ramona Quimby audiobooks on record. She would start the record as we cleaned the house. I am pretty sure that two of my brothers still know the whopper burger song!
Yesterday, my Mom picked me up a new pair of compression socks from Binson’s. Today, she changed my socks and put them on. I told her that my previous socks were beginning to, “Bag at the knees and wrinkle at the ankles!“ I couldn’t believe that my Mom did NOT get that reference!
It was when Ramona wanted to be in commercials and she told her teacher that her legs looked like an elephant’s leg because her stockings were so wrinkled. Ramona couldn’t understand why her teacher was so offended but then the sentences after explained that Ramona’s own stockings were, “Bagged at the knees and wrinkled at the ankles.“
I explained the reference to my Mom and exclaimed that I loved Ramona Geraldine Quimby! My mom told me that she does not like that name and that it’s ugly to which I gasped and told her that I love her because she lives on Klickitat Street next to Howie Kemp! As I was telling my Mom this, Sean chimed in through his bedroom door and asked if Howie had his own book series. I responded with an exuberant, “Yes!” and added that it also included his dog, Ribsy.
I used to take Sean to the library and got those books for him when he was young. I smiled at the fact that Sean remembered this fact and my Mom shook her head and whispered, “Nerds! Both of you!” I laughed really hard to hear her say this. When Sean was younger, he was an avid reader, it was something I’ve passed down to him! I appreciate that!
My new compression socks DO NOT, “Bag at the knees and wrinkle at the ankles,” they feel really good! I have never had to put them on myself. I wouldn’t even be able to now so my Mom puts them on for me. I tell her that she makes it look easy and I don’t know how difficult it is! She will just respond with, “It is!”
I am very grateful that she does this for me because now, without my socks on, for the shortest amount of time, my feet turn purple because my legs no longer have proper bloodflow anymore. I also appreciate that I’ve been thinking about the Ramona books since my Mom called us nerds. She has never done that (that’s mostly left for my brother, Dave, to say) but she kind of laughed at the literary conversation Sean and I had and the fact that we were the only two people in the house who know what we were talking about. If that makes us nerds, I’m totally OK with that!