Young Cooks ~ Boiling Corn

One group of friends I call the "Golden Girls" because we have known each other for fifty years. We were children together and bonded early as we walked to school together. The walk was a nice long walk that put down these long solid roots of friendship.
This story is about an incident with one of the Golden Girls, Peggy.

We were in our twenties, just out of school when Peggy and I got an apartment together. Both of our Dad's went with us to buy a car as we now needed our own transportation. We selected great big Pontiac's as gas prices weren't a problem at about 17 cents per gallon.
The dealer had two cars just alike but different colors...mine was yellow and white... Peggy's was aqua and white. Our Dad's got a 'deal' was we bought two cars at the same time.

That was a great summer of our lives. We were young and totally free.

Neither one of us knew how to cook and didn't own a cookbook.
One beautiful summer day, I went for groceries and decided we would enjoy corn on the cob.

Preparing dinner, I asked, "How long do you boil corn?"
Together we decided since most thing take about 30 minutes, that was it. We put the corn in and brought it to a boil and turned it a few times during the 30 minutes of cooking.

Well, that corn was hard. Under-cooked we decided ...so next meal...45 minutes...still wasn't done...
We boiled it a full hour...we were amazed corn took so long to cook.
We were now on a quest to have tender boiled corn.

Next corn attempt, we wanted to boil it about two hours, we decided.
Peggy reminded me to
"June, remember to put the corn on to boil as soon as you get home today."
After an afternoon of boiling and failing, we finally asked someone...

"How long should you boil corn?"
"About 6-7 minutes"

Peggy got engaged almost immediately after meeting Charles, thus ending our apartment living and cooking.
June