3/15/2001
PE

BD: Boyd Davis
GM: Grady Mitchum
FS: Female Staff Member

BD: Good morning, Miss Grady! Hello! How are you?
GM: What's your name?
BD: Boyd Davis, and I come see you....
GM: Yes.
BD: ...once a month. You look so pretty! I love this!
GM: What are you doing?
BD: I come to visit about every week, and we just have conversations and trade memories.
GM: Yes.
BD: We share our memories.
GM: Well, I reckon I do have a lot of memories, but I can't think of them now.
BD: What memories was she sharing with you?
FS: She was telling me about how her Dad used to own a store.
BD: Your Dad owned a store?
FS: A shoe repair or something?
BD: You and your Dad owned a store?
GM: Yes, uh huh. My Daddy and my brother, not me.
BD: Where was it?
GM: Huh?
BD: Tell me about the store.
GM: About the store?
BD: Yes, tell me about it. She can hear your voice better than mine because it's higher.
FS: Tell her about the store your Dad and brother owned.
GM: I don't know nothing about it, except it was a country store. Daddy worked out there with my brother.
FS: What did they sell?
GM: Groceries.
FS: What about the shoe store that you and your husband owned?
GM: I don't know; that's been a long time ago.
BD: Here - we'll get out of the way and keep talking.
GM: Are you going to take me home at lunch time?
BD: Oh! It's not lunch time.
GM: It's not lunch time?
BD: No, it's not.
GM: Well, what do I do, go home?
BD: We'll go back to your room.
FS: We're going to comb your hair and put some perfume on. Look at this bouquet!
GM: It's dark in here! You made up my bed while I was gone!
FS: I know. I'm going to take those sheets off and change them. Smell that? Smells good. Don't you feel better now?
GM: What did you put on me? A dab of this and a dab of that and a dab of something else?
(They all laugh)
FS: It only takes a little bit to make something already smelling good smell better.
GM: I smell good!
FS: That's fine!
(They all laugh)
BD: Yes, you do!
FS: I insulted you, didn't I?
BD: Oh, you have such pretty hair!
GM: My Daddy said I was born ugly and I'd have to stay that way!
BD: Your Daddy said so much!. He said that to make you laugh, didn't he?
GM: I don't know.
BD: (Laughs)
GM: He was a mess! My brother had a country store and Daddy sat out there. The men came to talk to him and I guess he worried my brother...the crowd coming in and sitting and talking...laughing. My brother would tell them to get out of his way!
FS: "Get out of my way while I'm working," huh? Ok, honey, put your glasses on.
GM: Rub that in real good.
FS: Oh, ok.
BD: That feel so good on your back...
FS: How's that?
GM: I don't know.
FS: Don't know? Well, it looks good!
GM: I can't tell.
FS: You were already feeling good before I put it on you, huh? Ok, dear....I'm going to get out of your way now, ok?
BD: I'll just stay and talk for one more minute, and then I've got to go. Miss Grady Mitchum, you are ready for the day!
GM: What do I do now?
BD: Well, you could go to Bible Study and singing....want to go to that?
GM: Do what?
BD: Bible Study and singing...
GM: I knew that there was Bible Study.
BD: Well, let's go down there!
GM: What his name? Larry....?
BD: Larry Watts?
GM: Larry what?
BD: Larry Watts. I love him! He's so good! He was a radio evangelist.
GM: He was?
BD: Yes, he was a radio preacher and very well known.
FS: Here in Charlotte?
BD: Yes.
GM: Where are we going now?
BD: Let's go down to the singing. They're practicing hymns.
FS: Bye, Miss Grady!
BD: We'll go down there...
GM: Is it time for him to speak?
BD: I don't think it's time for him to speak. I think they're just singing this morning. But I heard people talking about a Bible Study later.
GM: I don't know what to do.
BD: I don't, either! But we'll just go see! If you like it, you can stay.
GM: I'll go by and see what they're doing....you never know!
BD: That's the truth. We'll just go here.
GM: It's pretty down this hall since they painted it.
BD: I agree, it really is nice. Well, they were playing music, but now they're watching television. What do you want to do? You want to watch the TV or go back to your room?
GM: Well, I don't need to come sit at the TV.
BD: Yes. It's not time for lunch, what do you want to do?
GM: I really don't want to see nothing on TV.
BD: Then let's go back to your room.
GM: Ok. I've got a TV there if I wanted to see it. There's not much on TV.
BD: Well, we'll go this way if you're not into TV today. We'll go to your room.
GM: Ok.
BD: Good morning!
GM: How are you? How long is it until luch time?
BD: How long is it until lunch time? I think a hour, at least. I think it's an hour before lunchtime, Miss Grady. I always get hungry in the middle of the morning.
GM: I thought that is my room.
BD: No, it's says it's Margaret Dora's room.
GM: Oh.
BD: This is your room right here. I'll take you up to it.
GM: Is that not my room?
BD: That is not your room. It has a yellow star on it, which is why it confused you, but this one is your room. She's changing your bed. There's your stuffed animals and your pictures. There's your dog.
GM: I guess this is my room.
BD: Yes. This is your room. I will see you later!
GM: Ok.
BD: Bye bye!