Mom, Tia Angie and Old Timers with No Spines

My mother was a real character. She would always say things backwards or in some other misconstrued way, but I always knew what she meant. She dropped out of school when she was very young and never had much confidence in her spelling ability so, very often, she'd call me at work to ask me how to spell something. This would bug the crap outta me because it wasn't a question of just saying ..."