A lady never smokes a cigarette on the street, always goes out wearing gloves, pearls and stockings and doesn’t go anywhere without a handkerchief, is careful to sit up straight and not show any leg or underwear when she sits down. And she has on clean undergarments in case she’s in an accident.

This reminds me that I rushed to the hospital when my mother had been in a serious car accident. I leaned over her bed and said, “What about your underwear; what were you wearing?” She smiled, “Oh, honey – I had on my brand new Teddys and a new slip you gave me from Neiman Marcus! I was fine!”

She was in a neck brace but she recovered; however, this was, word for word, our first conversation.