From Small Town Boy to World Traveler
Funny Stories and Escapades of a Louisiana Redneck and Wannabe Cajun
During our brief two years in Kansas City, my mother (Lou) and father (A.B.) made friends with another couple. I suppose that either the husband or the wife worked with my Dad. I never knew their names. They lived on the other side of town. I was too young to recall what side of Kansas […]
When I was 4 years old, living in Kansas City, Missouri during the early 1950’s, my father took me with him to downtown Kansas City to shop for Christmas gifts. This was when America was safe, but this story will make you wonder about my safety and have you questioning my young Dad’s parenting skills […]
Growing up in the small town of Anacoco, Louisiana in the 1950’s and 1960’s could be very boring at times. Sports, hunting and fishing were our main forms of extracurricular entertainment. The student body was too small to field a football team. Basketball was king, and baseball came in a distant second. I was first […]
Boudreaux’s had no car and his wife Clotile wanted to go into Baton Rouge for some shopping. Her granddaughter suggested she take an Uber and installed the Uber app on her cell phone. The Uber driver picks Clotile up in front of her home in Church Point, Louisiana and about ten minutes into the trip […]
I finally caved in and purchased hearing aids in early 2019. I don’t generally put them on unless I’m going to a special meeting with a client, want to hear juicy gossip, hear what my kids are saying behind my back or know in advance that the restaurant I’m going to is particularly noisy. My […]
The Police Chief in Abbeville, Louisiana called up Boudreaux, a small town policeman in nearby Erath, Louisiana. He asked Boudreaux if he could come in and talk about some undercover investigative work he wanted him to do. When Boudreaux arrived the Chief told him, “Boudreaux, we have reports of an illegal cock fighting ring operating […]
Long before Jim and Jane Henson introduced the Muppets to America in 1955, America had Howdy Doody, a highly popular TV show that featured Buffalo Bob Smith and his puppet character, Howdy Doody. Buffalo Bob was originally a radio announcer in New York and invented the voice for an imaginary character named Howdy Doody. He […]
Long gone are the days of trading paper notes in class without getting caught. Kids that text (all 100% of them) will never experience the thrill of receiving a paper note, the anticipation that surrounded getting one if you were expecting it from your girlfriend or boyfriend, the cooperation and assistance, plotting and planning it […]
The year is 2024, and the United States has just elected the first woman President, a Louisiana State University graduate, named Marie Boudreaux. A few days after the election, the president-elect calls her father Richard Boudreaux and asks, “Dad, I’m assuming you and Mom will be coming to my inauguration?” “I don’t think so darling. […]
When I was growing up in Anacoco, Louisiana, a small West Central Louisiana town in Vernon Parish, one athlete stood out as superior to all. His name was Jimmy Hawthorne, who in later life became the radio broadcast voice of the LSU Tigers from 1979 to 2016. Our school in Anacoco was a small class […]