Saturday

“Today, in the morning, Barbara and I went down to the Miniature golf course and Jimmy and Loren was there. We went up to the office to get change so we could bowl and Loren said to Barbara, ‘Where do you get all your money?’ And then when I came up to the office Loren said to me, ‘And where do you get all your money?’ and I told him from my mother and he said, ‘Your poor mother.’ And I smiled at him. In the afternoon, Barbara and I went down there and Jimmy and Loren was still there but in a few minutes Mr. and Mrs. Richards and Malcolm was with them. . . 

. . .Barbara and I were bowling than all of a sudden, the bowling machine would not work.

. . .So, Mal came over and was trying to fix it. The he wanted to play to see if it would work and Mrs. Richards said, ‘Let Norma play it.’ I put the dime in for her. So, I gave Mal a dime and said, ‘I want to try to beat you.’ And he smiled and then Barbara put a dime in. So, we were all playing on the same machine. We played about six games with Malcolm and then Mal played golf with some guys. Barbara and I played right behind them and Mal was last so he talked to us. When we were through playing, Barbara and I left and Mal was playing again with that guy. When we were out, I waved to Mal and he waved back. . .

. . .At night, Barbara and I went down to the Miniature golf course again. When we went up to the office, Loren said, ‘I smell something again.’ Allen was sitting in the office and when he heard Loren say that, he started cracking up. All this time, Mal was sitting in Loren’s car with his friend, playing cards and I was just waiting for it to get dark so they couldn’t see anymore so then Mal would come out. As soon as Barbara and I got through playing golf, we sat on the counter and Mal came up to us and smiled and started talking to us. Then he said ‘Would you like to play a game of golf?’ And I said, ‘Yes’ before Barbara knew what was happening. When we were on about the 6th hole, Mal said, ‘9321 Diamond’ and I looked at him and said, ‘I wonder who lives there?’ and then I laughed and Mal said, ‘Is that where you live?’ And I shook my head ‘yes’. And the way Mal said that, I’m pretty sure he knew I lived there. When we were on the 11th hole, the ball came out of the house and missed the hole. I was looking at Mal and he stuck out his tongue at me. It looked real cute. Barbara and I was talking about school and I said I didn’t want to wear shoes and I said I hate to wear shoes and I hate to go to school and Mal said, ‘What grade are you going into? 2nd?’ And then he laughed. When we were on the 15th hole and I made it in 5 and Barbara said Cindy made it in 2 and she’s only 2 and I said something that I was calling myself ‘2’. When I thought about what I said, Mal was looking at me and I said ‘I’m not 2’ and he laughed. I love Mal.

P.S. When we were on the 2nd hold, we were standing there talking. When the people in front of us were through playing that hole, Mal said, ‘Lowest man goes first, so, go ahead.’ And then he said, ‘Wait a minute, I’m the man here.’ And then he smiled at me. When we was on the 3rd hole, there was some Dentine Gum in 3 wrappers. So, Mal picked it up and asked me if I wanted it and I said ‘no’. So, he ate it and when he started chewing, it sounded like he hadn’t had a piece of gum in months. He asked me who was over there that I knew and I said, ‘Oh, some boy.’ And he asked me to show him to him. So, I did and I think Mal is jealous. That’s why he asked. When we were on the same hole, there was a cat next to us. So Mal picked it up and put it in front of my face and he scared me. A while after that when we were on the chip shot, I looked up at Grandpa’s window and I said, ‘Grandpa’s still got his calendar down.’ And Barbara said, ‘Does he still have the same pictures up there?’ And Mal said, ‘He’s got a pitcher up there?’ And I said, ‘Pictures not pitcher.’

In the afternoon when Barbara and I and Mal was bowling, Wayne came up to me and said, ‘Excuse me.’ And he stuck his finger in my side and tickled me. At night when we got through golfing. Barb told Mr. Richards what Mal’s score was and Mal looked at his father then looked at me. And his father said, ‘Mal must of had something else on his mind.'”

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All Entries in August 1960:

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 1, 1960 – “I’m still trying to get Mal”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 2, 1960 – “there were two cute guys sitting at the bus stop and they kept staring at us”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 3, 1960 – “He couldn’t have made me happier by flirting”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 4, 1960 – “I didn’t think he would talk to me, but he did, he talked and talked”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 5, 1960 – “Mabel and I went to the Midway Drive-in to see ‘The Story of Ruth'”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 6, 1960 – “she wanted to run out in the street and jump on his car”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 7, 1960 – “‘Her face is as red as her hair’ and when he said that I really got embarrassed”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 8, 1960 – “but before Malcolm left he kept standing by us and staring at me”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 9, 1960 – “We played one game and then we sat on the counter”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 10, 1960 – “I still love Malcolm an awful lot, even if he is older”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 11, 1960 – “God Norma, I don’t know what’s the matter with that guy. He keeps staring at you.”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 12, 1960 – “I wasn’t very thrilled that Loren was there but then I don’t know that I would be thrilled if Malcolm was there either”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 13, 1960 – “Malcolm was telling them about his place for staying at college. My heart just dropped”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 14, 1960 – “We were going to call up Loren and Mal”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 15, 1960 – “And I said, ‘ To hit you over the head with!’ And he smiled”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 16, 1960 – “Barbara couldn’t go. . .and I was mad because Loren was working”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 17, 1960 – ” and we listened on the other phone”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 18, 1960 – ” We sat there for a long time, me thinking and talking about Malcolm and Barbara about Loren”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 19, 1960 – “Mal had on a white tee shirt and Levis which he looked real good in”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 20, 1960 – “I was looking at Mal and he stuck out his tongue at me. It looked real cute”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 21, 1960 – “Hardie came over to me and he was standing real close. . .he was showing me how to bowl right “

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 22, 1960 – “I asked Ian if Mal was going to come over tonight”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 23, 1960 – “Can I put my cigarettes in your purse so nobody will get them”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 24, 1960 – “Mister Richards gave us a free game of golf and he gave us some dimes so we could bowl”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 25, 1960 – “Ian was going to ask Mal to come over”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 26, 1960 – “Today I stayed home all day”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 27, 1960 – “She was too excited about Malcolm coming over”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 28, 1960 – “Malcolm was eating and playing checkers with some boy”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 29, 1960 – “So, when I went in her bedroom, I just about fell over because Frank was already there”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 30, 1960 – “I was real surprised when I saw Malcolm there when we went up to the office”

Miss Norma’s Diary – August 31, 1960 – “I am beginning to think Loren likes Barbara a little bit because he pays so much attention to her”

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