Heather Regehr Williams shared a story about James Ball

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James Albert
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2017

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The Cottage Cheese Incident

I think of Jim every time I avoid eating cottage cheese. Although never close friends, we were classmates through our public school years at Parliament Oak. Back in the early 70's Niagara-on-the-Lake was a small town indeed. Jim's mom ran the local Avondale store in the new strip mall that was built next to Pepe's corner. And everyone knew that his dad loved to fish!

At my house, we didn't eat yogurt or cottage cheese. Never heard of the stuff. We had cereal every morning except Sundays. After church we ate bacon & eggs - a reward for attendance. A kid had to be pretty sick to miss a day of school, but half dead to get out of going to church!

In Grade 7 we had a loud & flambouyant new teacher named Mrs. Pittner. Tight clothes over a generous figure with flaming bottle-red hair. As compared to Mr. Pogue, with his quiet good looks, she woke up the school! One of them had decided to rearrange the desks into groups of 4. 2 side by side directly facing their partners. I sat next to Brad Southcott & faced Jim Ball.

No one in attendance is likely to ever forget the morning that Jim stood up and power puked cottage cheese all over me! Wow. There was soooo much cottage cheese. The sound of it splatting on my desk. The realization that it was on top of my head. Dripping everywhere. Of course, I jumped up and ran out of the classroom, barfing my own breakfast up on the way to the girls room!

Now, I knew that Jim was sorry. He wasn't one of those guys who would have gotten a kick out of doing that to me (like some who will go unnamed!) I wasn't exactly sure who was laughing & who was screaming with horror at that moment in time.

The 2 things I am sure of are these:

The biggest victim was our beloved janitor, Mr. Bizzell. Because he had to clean it all up.

AND

I have never been able to even look at cottage cheese without feeling queazy & thinking of Jim Ball!

Such a shame that he left this world prematurely. My condolences to his family. Please enjoy this true story in the good nature with which it was intended. PS - It's almost even funny to me now!

Sincerely,

Heather Williams nee Regehr

Posted by Heather Regehr Williams

Friday May 26, 2017 at 10:39 am