Well Happy Easter Monday everyone!!!
Fran that deck thing...Sheesh!!!!!! Makes my 99 problems seem slightly smaller....but only slightly....Sorry about that!!
5 hope the ribs are feeling better!!!!!!
Easter Monday...Somewhere around 71/72....My dad was off work and working on our lawnmower...My Uncle N.A had borrowed some wrenches from Dad and hadn't returned them..I had been watching the repairs and my little Honda SL 70 was sitting right there so Dad asked me to go and get the wrenches...I obliged...Now N.A. is the uncle who passed last year...the one with the long history of alcoholism...and...it was a Holiday...So yeah he was fired up...Well I got the wrenches and rode on back home down the shoulder of the highway...right past the Highway patrol...I never saw the law and went on back down where Dad was....I was sitting and watching Dad work when the trooper came around the side of the house...Dang if he wasn't 'bout to bust a vessel...Dad and I looked on kinda in disbelief....He was lecturing my azz on all the possible ways I'd just eluded death....then.....N.A. had seen the Trooper tear out after me...He had a 55 Chevy with a 427 4-speed from a Corvette...N.A. drunk as a skunk fired up that Chevy and came too the rescue...He had that dang thing screaming
through every gear and was going way over a hundred when he came past...That trooper 'bout sheet his pants and ran for his car...Now N.A. taught me how to drive and even drunk that trooper stood no chance...30 minutes later N.A. came riding up from the back way on a tractor...He had his gold tooth displayed...That was my first encounter with the law and Unc saved my azz....We never saw that trooper again....As tomorrow is the anniversary and both Dad and N.A. are gone I'll have to go down and sit for a bit and reflect...There will probably never be an Easter Monday that comes around I don't think about that day...Just another day in my hood building the legend of "El Dee".........