Big Alabama and the Chained Refrigerator

by sandraseamans

Sometimes you just run across a story that tickles your funny bone.  “Big Alabama and the Chained Refrigerator” is about parents taking drastic measures to help their daughter lose weight, without success.  You can read the story here  http://www.upthestaircase.org/issue18jamesvalvis.htm

1944, Ellen Gilchrist, RHODA-A LIFE IN STORIES

by Patti Abbott

#212 Gilchrist wrote these marvelous stories over five volumes of stores and then collected them here. Rhoda is a handful. In this story, she quits piano lessons but finds, through a recently bereaved widow, she can make lovely music with a martini stirrer and a row of glasses.