What a great story. Your Mom reminded me a great deal of my Mom. Later in life I would drive my Mom to her hair appointment. In the hair salon, she would sit under the ginormous hair .

dryer, as young girls would sit in front of her, as Mom would braid their hair.

omg, taking glass bottles back to the store for a refund was awesome. lol. The big one gallon milk bottle were the money shot, lol... what? .25 cents for the one gallon jugs?