A Long Way from Chicago

Sheriff O. B. Dickerson is the sheriff of Grandma’s small town. He’s a stickler for the rules—but only as far as other people are concerned. While he posts signs that forbid drifters desperate for work from stopping in town or prohibit fishing in the “private” Salt Creek, the sheriff doesn’t seem to believe the same rules apply to himself and his deputies. In “A One-Woman Crime Spree,” as Grandma, Joey, and Mary Alice float downstream in the sheriff’s boat (which Grandma often borrows without asking), the trio catches the sheriff and his men undressed and drunkenly singing on the job. Grandma calls him out on his double standards after he tries to scold her for feeding the hungry drifters outside her house later that night.