The Hitchhiking Grandmother, Grace Small

Well, Grace's Father got a job at the local telephone company. He got it because it was a steady job and they gave him a house with it as well. Grace tells us the story of how she learned to read and of her marriage. She said that she got married because her father had died and she went through shock. The people who surrounded her arranged it for her and thought it would make her feel better. Before her father died, the phone company he worked for got cars and he became a mechanic. It was the only shop in the city so he got good business.

It seems as though back then people were more free to do what they wanted with their lives and could do things they wanted to do without degrees. It sounds much nicer to me. I think that it's pretty cool that Grace got to work for her father as a mechanic, she said she pulled cars out of ditches for her dad. She made it sound fun. She also described learning how to read in a good way. The woman who tought her to read must have been very smart because she tricked Grace into reading by getting her to come to her house everyday and using reverse psychology to get her to do so. I'm wondering what will happen to Grace and her newly wedded husband because she described them as opposites.