April 1, 2013

• Names Withheld

  It wasn't April 1^st, but it would have been a great April Fools prank.

  My cousin was visiting for several weeks from Indiana and we were bored on a Sunday afternoon.  I was 12 and she was 14.  She loved to try different hair styles and she was in the mood for fixing hair.  I didn't want her doing my hair so she decided to do her own.  She came up with a style completely different from anything I had ever seen and then tried on a pair of aviator sunglasses.  She didn't look like the same person and the planning began.

  At that time, there was a clinic at the mission and there was a nurse on staff.  My cousin decided to see if she could fool our nurse into giving her a tour of the clinic.  We rummaged around and found a nurse’s uniform.  We found a pin – I think it was dad’s 4-H pin- that she pinned to the uniform.  Unless you actually read the pin, it looked official.  But what about shoes?  Neither of us owned a pair of white shoes so I pulled moms wedding shoes out of her closet.  These were not nurses’ shoes; these were spike-heeled pumps.  She slipped them on and tottered up the sidewalk to visit our nurse. 

   

   

  She introduced herself as a nurse from a neighboring mission and said she would be interested in having a tour of the clinic.  (Understand that this is the west and the neighboring mission was almost two hours away so there weren't many social calls made.)  We were peeking out of cracks in the curtains as we watched my cousin walk to the clinic with our nurse.  They seemed to be getting along just fine. 

  After the tour was over, my cousin said she’d like to say hello to David and Mildred before she traveled back up the road to her mission.  She walked into our front door and as soon as the door was shut behind her, we all had a good laugh.  She had pulled it off.  This was my 14-year-old cousin and not a visiting nurse who had just had a tour of the clinic.  When our nurse found out who had visited that afternoon, she admitted that she did wonder if a nurse could really work in those heels, but other than that she was fooled.  To this day, my cousin has kept her word and hasn't reveled some of what she learned about the clinic.

  (The names of the involved parties have been withheld.)

   

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