Me and the wife were visiting her mom and dad at Shallotte this weekend, so I figured I would look up two of my childhood buddies from Old Ellerbe Road at Five Points. So, I tweaked the Yellow Pages on my IPhone and lo and behold, I found their addresses and phone numbers in a matter of seconds. Don't know what I did before I got this phone. Anyway, I knew they lived in Shallotte but seemed I was always too busy to look them up when I had been there before.
Called them up and arranged to meet them at the Sunrise Pancake House Saturday morning. It was great to see a couple of the guys I grew up with many years ago. They were getting ready to head up to Leland NC to check out the Italian festival for some great food. We had fun reminiscing about the childhood years around our neighborhood.
Oh yeah - the guys I am talking about are Jerry Wayne and Woody Jenkins. Brothers that lived right up the street from me. Jerry had moved to Shallotte about 10 years ago and talked his older brother Woody into doing the same thing about 5 years ago. They live about 2 miles apart. When we were kids, I had a crush on their sister Jenny Sue. She is now married to Billy Lear.
My wife worked with Woody's wife Carol years ago in Hamlet at Hardison and Hardison. And, I worked with Woody at the railroad but didn't get to see him much as I worked as a clerk and he was an electrician.
Jerry, Woody and I did a lot of hunting when we were kids. But I haven't done that in years. Woody and Jerry and their wives now mostly fish instead of hunt. But it was really great to get to relive some of those memories.
Jerry Jenkins and wife Vicky, Carol Jenkins and husband Woody
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