If I would forget my lunch money.....the nice lady would let me pay it the next day...which I always did. She is also my neighbor as an adult. :)
Such is the stuff of small-town living or living back when things were more “normal” than today. The three years of Junior High were the only time I was in a school building with a cafeteria. I was fortunate that most of the lunch ladies were either in Eastern Star or church with my grandmother so I was usually the beneficiary of an extra hot roll that was so good.