Pint Family Secret

Last updated 5 August 2021

When we were young we noticed that the Pint sisters had a feud going on.  There seemed to be two different factions.  When we asked Mom about it, all we got was something like “I really don’t know” or “it happened a long time ago and we just don’t talk about it”

That didn’t deter us from brining the subject up again long after we left the nest.  We heard rumors .  One rumor centered around  Poppa (Mom’s father). The story goes: Poppa had been in the hospital for some reason  and upon discharge he contacted one of the people from the (non-Mom) faction for transportation home.   After some long wait, he finally decided to walk home.  Fortunately one of the husbands from the “good” faction saw him resting on someone’s front steps  and gave him a lift home.

Anna gave another, more credible story.  In 2018 Anna had had a couple of strokes and her filters were turned off.  According to her, the feud  started when two of the sisters worked in the same clothing store.  Anna was under-age and borrowed Honey’s (Elizabeth) identification.  To the employer, Anna was known as Betty.  All went well until the boss indicated he was about to give one of the Pint girls a promotion.  Of course Honey, who had worked at the store longer than Anna and was the older of the two expected that she was the chosen one.  When the boss announced that it was “Betty” Honey threw a “hissy fit” and apparently said some things about the boss that got her fired.

Schroeffel Stories

Last updated March 5, 2020

Felling a Tree  Anthony Schroeffel was cutting a tree down in his front yard.  He had taken care to tie the tree so that it would not fall onto the house.  He was sure that it would fall to the empty space between his house and ours.  He miscalculated while cutting the tree and, thanks to gravity, it fell before he had cut all the way through.  It didn’t fall on the house or where he intended it to but over the sidewalk and crashed through the railing.  Fortunately, all it did was break the railing and didn’t roll down the hill and hit a house on Royal Street.