How Grandma Lucy broke her nose

Here's an excerpt from story time with Grandma Kathleen. I love her unique style of telling a story and her expressive use of pauses.


While we’re talking about broken noses, I have a story about Grandma Lucy.

She broke her nose! This was way back, the roads weren’t paved. She lived on a gravel road. She drove an old, old car, and this was back in the 30s, I guess.

Anyhow, she was out on this dirt road, and I don’t remember if the car turned over or something, but she had a wreck. And broke her nose! The lady that lived at the house in front of where she had this wreck, came out--

“Oh Lucy!”

went back in the house and came back with a mirror. Mom’s nose: smashed all the way over.

Mom took a look at the mirror, straightened her nose back up again. And she did go into the hosp--not the hospital, back in those days you didn’t have a hospital around, anyhow, went in to the doctor, and the doctor said, it’s a good thing you did what you did. Because of course now it was all swollen and the doctor couldn’t do anything about it. But she had placed it, and yeah, she had a little bit of a crooked nose, it was okay, the passages worked okay, but anyway, it was a pretty neat story. I believe that my older brother was just a little baby in the car at the time.

You can see in these two pictures, her nose looks perfectly straight! Click the picture to zoom in.