Leftovers.....

I asked Millyrose what she had in mind for dinner t’nite....it was just a casual kind of question cuz if she didn’t have anything special planned, I wuz gonna suggest pizza....She whirled to face me ‘n barked out, “We’re having chili. It’s on the stove.”
I tho’t she was daring me to object to what wuz ackshully leftovers cuz she knows I don’t much care for leftovers...
Taken aback, I c’d only stare for a moment, then mainly cuz I’m too durn old t’fight ‘n too lazy t’run, I busted out laughing...’n the more I laughed...well, heck...the more I laughed...until I was crying ‘n my stomach ached ‘n Millyrose was laughing also but she didn’t know why we were laughing ‘n the more she asked me, why the harder I laughed....which come to think on it, ain’t that durn funny anyway.....
So, we had leftover chili for dinner...’n some crackers...I put butter on my crackers when I have chili...it’s a habit I picked up many years ago from a buddy I had back then by the name of Larry Harkins...well, his name was Paul Laurence Harkins ‘n he wuz from Bakersfield, California...before I met him, I’d never had butter on crackers, had never even tho’t of it....Heck! I didn’t even butter my bread back then....well, except for toast...I buttered my toast but that wuz about all...didn’t eat a lot of butter back then...
We were in Okinawa ‘n the cooks at the chow hall where we ate always toasted the bread becuz the bread wuz always stale...
I never buttered my bread but I always buttered my toast so I began to butter my toast that I had for ev’ry meal....One day we had chili ‘n Larry Harkins buttered his crackers...I tho’t that was funny ‘n said sumthing about it...he said he’d always buttered his crackers ‘n didn’t know anyone who didn’t ‘n tho’t it was a little werid that I didn’t butter mine....well, t’make a long story even longer, I began to butter my crackers.....that was ‘way back in ‘57 ‘n I’m still doing it...He wuz the guy that introduced me to tortillas also....I had never tasted a tortilla, didn’t even know what they were but his Mother made really good tortillas...