WTF was Billy Joe McCallister throwing off the Talahachie bridge?

[Ulcasterdropout]

ask someone from Choctaw Ridge

 

[Slapaho]

It has been so long since I read the book but I think that she and Billy Joe got into an arguement on the bridge and he accused her of being a child, wanted to know when she would become a woman, gave her a hard time about carrying around her childhood doll. He grabbed the doll from her and they struggled for it, in the process the doll fell over the edge of the bridge.

In the song, "The Night the Lights Went Out" - the executed her brother before she had time to confess.

 

[Slapaho]

p.s. I am now 42 and I read that book when I was 13......mind like a steele trap!

 

[RottenWillow]

It has been so long since I read the book but I think that she and Billy Joe got into an arguement on the bridge and he accused her of being a child, wanted to know when she would become a woman, gave her a hard time about carrying around her childhood doll. He grabbed the doll from her and they struggled for it, in the process the doll fell over the edge of the bridge.

Oh my God....thank you.

In the song, "The Night the Lights Went Out" - the executed her brother before she had time to confess.

Yeah I remember that line, but what kind of bs excuse is that? Before she had time?!! Bitch that would take like two seconds!

 

[Slapaho]

I don't think she was actually there when they hung him but she sure knew alot of conversational details for not being there.....

 

[RottenWillow]

I don't think she was actually there when they hung him but she sure knew alot of conversational details for not being there.....

I know! talking bout I have dinner waiting and gotta get to it. WTF? Nice damn sister.

 

[big4life]

I know! talking bout I have dinner waiting and gotta get to it. WTF? Nice damn sister.

That was the judge talking to the sheriff, and it was "supper's waiting" not dinner. There is a big difference between dinner and supper in the south.

 

[rnch]

this was always a topic for debate among me and my friends....we all thought they either threw their aborted child off the bridge or her engagement/marriage ring.

 

[Slapaho]

Nope, neither one. Actually she was never pregnant as they never had sex. They tried but he could'nt get it up due to guilt he felt over a drunken homosexual act which is why he jumped off of the bridge. She left town so that everyone would think she was pregnant.

 

[RottenWillow]

Nope, neither one. Actually she was never pregnant as they never had sex. They tried but he could'nt get it up due to guilt he felt over a drunken homosexual act which is why he jumped off of the bridge. She left town so that everyone would think she was pregnant.

OMG you rock. you are the Ode afficionado.