Summers on the Screened Porch

 We had a screened porch at Granny and Pompaw's house that was created because Granny had TB, twice I think. Anyway, I remember taking a nap on the screened porch with Pompaw one day. I was about 4 or 5 years old. It was summertime. Probably hot as blazes, but I didn't know. We had no air-conditioning or fans at Pompaw's. Hot was the norm. Anyway, I peed all over Pompaw, but he never moved. I remember waking up and thinking,"Awwww, he loves me so much that he didn't want to wake me up." Truth of the matter is that he was probably terrified that, "the terror," would wake up. As my sisters frequently point out, my childhood behavior was less than stellar. God knows how many times he got peed on. Lord knows what that mattress must have smelled like.