back next Two Jokes © 1979 Tom Ferguson The "local or express" one speaks for itself but the other one, something
to do with traveling salemen maybe? My mother had a visitor, the "T-man" she called him, who came everyweek(?)
maybe monthly, with a suitcase of various items, some on "special". She would buy a few trivial items to be kind. It was
just part of the surroundings to me growing up but it's a strange kind of hold-over from a time when people lived more
rural lives.
