What You Missed at Calfee's "First Sunday" Trade Days in Milam, Texas

1. Presidential pocket knives (Still available: Zachary Taylor)
2. single tennis shoes
3. leather necklaces with enamel Confederate flag charms
4. the largest toenail nippers available outside a hardware store
5. decoupaged, wood-mounted portraits of Elvis and John Wayne

Comments

  1. Ben W. BrumfieldSeptember 3, 2007 at 10:24 PM

    I love the confederate mood rings.

    Remind me to tell you the old family story about my slothful relatives and Zachary Taylor's piano sometime.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 7:49 AM

    Does it involve either Rupert Everett or Donald Maclean? Because, if so, a 17 year old British fan of Everett will be ON YOUR ASS.

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