By deeanndmathews on Skatehive
Capt. Ludlow and Sgt. Vincent Trent picked up two different newspapers and broke out laughing at the same time, because that was really how to keep from crying at the state of things in Lofton County. “You know, sometimes things taste like cardboard because they are, in fact, made with cardboard,” Mrs. Gladys Jubilee Trent remarked to her 18-year-old granddaughter Vanna. “This is why it doesn't pay to always be fixing up other people's problems. You did well with those chips and puffs, but it is definitely time to put your own snack line out there and end this.” “Well, the tornado kinda ended them, but, yes, Grandma Jubilee, the time is definitely right,” Vanna said as she loaded up her large popcorn popper. Capt. R.E. Ludlow called his entire family of eight little Ludlows and Mrs. Thalia Ludlow around. “Sometimes, George 'Taking-All-Their-Money' and Edwina 'I-Don't-Play-About-Mine' Ludlow, you learn what your grandfather, old 'Hell-to-Pay' Ludlow, had to learn. It doesn't always pay