This is a local story from my old hometown in Indiana that I just came across that made my day, not because it’s the story tell me she was dead, but because it appears she treated everyone the same regardless who they was and it wasn’t “just me†she hated. I had to deal with this mean old lady a few times and she was just mean to kids, she was mean to me in the 1980’s and she was mean to my dad in the 1950’s and she took no guff from anyone as proved by this story.
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A Lafayette legend, Elinor May Everett Stingley, 101, died late Tuesday night in the local home of her great-granddaughter, Lisa Yates. Stingley had been ill for a few weeks.
For nearly 50 years, Stingley was called the “Cone Lady” at the Original Frozen Custard next to Columbian Park.
Stingley, who was born and raised in Lafayette, was known for telling customers, “We do not mix flavors.”
She also would tell people it was “a cone line only.” She made no exceptions to customers.
Her granddaughter, Aleeah Livengood of Mulberry, said “granny” would not change the rules even for the rich and famous.
Singer Axl Rose, who grew up as William Bailey in Lafayette, gained fame with the rock band Guns N’ Roses. He once visited Arni’s and the Frozen Custard in the early-’90s at the height of his fame.
“We never called him Axl. He was always Bill Bailey to us,” said Livengood. “He went to the cone line because the other line was long.
“Finally, it was his turn, and he asked granny for a strawberry sundae. She told him to go to the other line. He said, ‘Do you know who I am?’ Granny said, ‘Yes, William. I know who you are. Now get to the other line.”
Axl Rose just laughed after getting a rise out of Stingley. He had lived with his grandmother behind the Frozen Custard and became good friends with the Cone Lady.
http://www.jconline.com/article/20090128/N
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May you spend all of eternity dishing melted ice cream to screaming kids you old witch.
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amused