T-boy looks at him and says “Pa how did your brother get the name ( Gator )?
Boudreaux said “Well boy it happen like this.” One afternoon, when we were young, your Uncle Percy was all clean up and ready to go to town and watch Pro Wrestling at the bar, when he got off the front porch he was in a hurry and ran to his truck. Then he stopped dry and ran back to the house hollering “There is a gator in the drive way and I can’t get out.” That got everyone attention, we all went out to see what all the excitement was about. Paw looked at the 4 foot gator and said. “He is too small tape his mouth and put him back in the bayou.” Percy went get the duct tape and I put on some boots. T-Boy pay attention son now I’ll tell you exactly what happen. Now Percy and I chased the Gator up against the wash shad where he was not too happy to be cornered. Percy says “You put your foot on his head and I’ll tape his mouth.”
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I snuck up on the Gator and in one quick move I put my left foot on the gators head. Then Percy knelt down in front of the gators mouth, Now lesson close boy, Percy pulled on the tape and the tape made a loud noise, you know that noise, well the gator freaked out, he hit me with his tail and knocking me about 5 feet away flat on my back and knocked the wind out of me. Now the gator is mad and all fired up and free to go where he want’s and he clamps down on Percy’s little finger on his left hand. Then Percy jumps back in sheer terror with the gator still holding on to his little finger, Percy is screaming like a school girl, he’s waving that gator up, down, left and right, it would not let go. So Pa said “Quit playing with that thing and go throw it in the bayou.”
So Percy runs to the bank of the bayou and with one huge motion he through the gator in the bayou. Now the gator still had the finger and when the gator went flying into the water he still had Percy’s finger. He pulled the finger clean off and swam away with it leaving Percy without a pinky finger on his left hand. So there son that is how Percy got the nick name “Gator”. Now what do you think of that?
T-Boy thought for a moment and said, “What other names do they call Percy?”
Submitted By Larry Arton, Jeanerette, La.
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