why i live at the P.O
...not cut his beard off. Since they lived in the south, at that time, their tradition was for the men to always grow their beard. She got this idea when Sister said something about Stella-Rondo’s child looking like Papa-Daddy without a beard. When Papa-Daddy heard that Sister thought that he should cut it off, he went into a whole speech about how he never cut his beard in his life and he never would. He also said that she should not question him since he got her a job at the China Grove Post Office through his influence. Since Sister knew that she said nothing of the sort, she tried to defend herself, but Stella-Rondo kept lying on her and telling her not to deny it. So Sister just left the room, and went to sit in the hallway, where Papa-Daddy passed by her, not saying a word, to go lay in the hammock. While she was sitting in the hallway, her Uncle Rondo came out dressed in one of Stella-Rondo’s kimonos. She didn’t think twice about it because that day was the fourth of July, and every fourth of July Uncle Rondo drinks a bottle of “prescription” or liquor, and does crazy things for the rest of the day. Uncle Rondo was a very simple minded guy and had a very bad temper. When Stella-Rondo saw that Uncle Rondo was wearing her Kimono, she flipped out and said he looked like a fool, but when the family was all together Stella-Rondo said that Sister was the one who spoke ill of Uncle Rondo behind his back. Since Uncle Rondo had a bad temper, he ripped off the kimono and stepped on it, but Sister knew that he would do something to get her back really good. The next morning Sister woke up to the sound of firecrackers that Uncle Rondo had set off in her room at 6:30 in the morning. The one thing that Sister tried to use against Stella-Rondo was that when Stella-Rondo came back from Illinois, she brought back a two year old child named Shirley T. Stella-Rondo never wrote the family to tell them that she had a child, which made Sister think that she had the child before she was married, and, considering the amount of time that she was away, that would be the only possible way. “So as soon as she got married and moved away from home the first thing that she did was separate!” Stella-Rondo told everyone that the child was adopted. Naturally, everyone believed her except Sister, and, since sister argue the subject, mother got angry with her. One thing Sister realized about Shirley T. was that she had not spoken a word or made a sound since she came, which was two days. Sister planned to convince mother that the child was Stella-Rondo’s birth child by implying to mother that the child’s brain was not all their. When mother thought about it, she remembered that Mr. Whitaker drank a lot. When they asked Stella-Rondo to prove that Shirley T. could talk, Shirley T. came in the room singing “Popeye the Sailor Man”, and shot Sisters plan to the ground, making mot...