Loretta Lynn said her husband was sure to run if she got ‘good and mad’ when there were beans to be found
Despite numerous other problems in their marriage, Lynn shared that the first time she dumped a bowl of beans on Oliver was on that anniversary. So, it might go without saying that he hadn’t planned anything. Instead, he had forgotten the occasion.
After a tense exchange during which she had a meal in her hand, she instinctively poured it on his head. He was left “covered in beans and juice,” she recalled.
Initially, she wasn’t sure how Oliver would react, especially once their kids started laughing at him. He got up and left, mad and unwashed, and she was “glad to see him go.”
“Now this was the first time I ever dumped a bowl of beans on Doolittle Lynn, but it wouldn’t be the last,” Lynn went on. “They became my weapon of choice. If beans was around when I got good and mad, you can bet he’d run.”