More people in my life

#3 Early Japanese Cars

               1961 Hino-Contessa
 

As we grow older, at times wiser, we realize that: 

There are people who make your life what it is, or change your direction. I will miss many but  I continue: Men in my life.

So for now… There is..

Dallas Fletcher. A friend since I met him at Pleasure Island, SC. We were in Boot Camp together. I learned soon we had a lot in common. He was a year older than I but we had our sights on a woman. We both married our sweethearts. Dallas was going to be his own boss. He changed jobs as many times as I, but settled on raising turkeys in Pennsylvania.  He was very successful.

S.A. (Dick) Lankford… My sister Kat’s husband. With very little formal education he studied, paid attention and as an unlearned southern boy became an administrator and spoke before the NYC ‘City council’. Dick had a knack when talking with you, you knew, you were important to him.

James (Jim) Wrap.. Another brother in law. Shirl’s hubby. A very educated man but he would never tell you he was. As my dad would say, “If a man is educated, he will not have to tell you.”

Of course there was Elmer Davidson. Married to Sherry sister Lennie and after she passed married my sister Kat. Elmer too, was an entrepreneur. His final business was a Catering Truck (Roach Coach as it is lovingly referred to). I asked him once, “Isn’t credit a little dangerous?” his answer was, “Ask Sears and Roebuck about that?” When I was in the cagtering business, He helped me. 

 The Good Samaritan, in my teens when keys were left in cars, I was driving dad’s car forward and backwards and hit a low cement wall. I punctured dad’s gas tank. While I was holding my finger on the leak a stranger saw my distress. Bending down he asked, “Do you have any ‘Octogan’ soap in the house?” I said ‘yes.’ “Get it, I will hold your leak.”  In less than a minute the leak stopped. I hate to admit it, but I never told dad. It didn’t leak again. The next year he traded the car. I did not know the Samaritan, I never saw him again.

Nite Shipslog  

P.S.(a) Do you remember Octagon Soap?

P.S.  Did I read that sign right?

Outside a second-hand shop:
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?

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