Tales Of Pete: The Weird Holiday Time

With it being the Christmas season, I figured it would be appropriate to talk about something that happened to me years ago around that time. Now this will be a second-hand account given to me by my mom. My dad was also present for the events as well but she’s always had the better memory among the two. That means she can get into more specific details in regards to what happened. I heard the story from her during a visit.

I was still a toddler at the time, being only I think a little over two and a half years old. My parents were moving in coincidentally around the holiday season, at the beginning of November in fact. Now as I’ve mentioned in the past, people moving into town is not something that occurs very often. That is unless they need to be somewhere out of the way. That isn’t to say all of the people in my town have done something bad.

Although, you could definitely find some shady characters. It’s more that they weren’t exactly dealt lucky hands in life. Due to one event or several, they ended up needing to settle there. My parents were no exception to this. Their reasoning for moving to it is a bit complicated.

What I will say in regards to it is they were in a “not many other options” type situation. In fairness, they didn’t know much about the town before going to it. All they knew was that it was somewhere higher-up…