This one is a bit vague as I have no existing documentation that I can find, so just my somewhat foggy memory to rely on. It must have happened during the summer of ’69 when I was working for P.F. Collier trying to sell the Encyclopedia Britannica. I was driving home on Route 422 from … Continue reading My First Traffic Stop
Autobiography
Another Traffic Stop
In 2005 when I was working in Northeast Philadelphia at the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), I had driven most of the way to work early one morning when I realized that I had forgotten my badge. While I probably would have been allowed inside and been assigned a temporary ID, I didn’t want to … Continue reading Another Traffic Stop
The Second Hearing
This is the fourth part of a series that began with A 70s Reminiscence and continued in Finding an Attorney and The Hearing The Hearing Notice for the second hearing arrived a few days later, but it wasn’t scheduled until July 22, a whole month to wait. When the hearing date came, I drove to … Continue reading The Second Hearing
The Hearing
This is the third part of a series that began with A 70s Reminiscence and continued in Finding an Attorney Before the day of the hearing dawned, I paid a visit to Howard Stoltz the barber to get my long hair trimmed. I think I shaved off my beard as well. I wanted to present … Continue reading The Hearing
Finding an Attorney
This is the second part of a series that began with A 70s Reminiscence Needless to say getting a ticket for speeding that was overwritten at 62 mph when I wasn’t doing more than 45 in a 35 mph zone back in 1975 put something of a damper on my visit to Sam Goody that … Continue reading Finding an Attorney
A 70s Reminiscence
In 1975 I was living in Richland, PA, and working in the hardware store that my parents had recently purchased. One problem with Richland was that there was no good place to buy records. I’m talking about vinyl LPs, which is how we bought our music in those days before CDs or streaming music became … Continue reading A 70s Reminiscence
Reverse Art
My grandparents used to have a painting hanging in their living room that I’d stare at for hours when I was at their house in Richland. I’m talking about my mother’s parents, Tillie and Harry Zellers. It was a painting of a cabin in a somewhat desolate snow covered landscape with smoke coming out of … Continue reading Reverse Art
Smile! That Cop’s On Candid Camera!
“Watch the policemen on the street,” said my mother. She had hustled my sister and me into the car and driven to Reading without explanation, which was strange, as we usually did any shopping in nearby Lebanon, whereas Reading was over a half hour drive away from Richland. My mother had a habit of being … Continue reading Smile! That Cop’s On Candid Camera!
Bob the Barker
My first memory of Bob Barker turned out to be a bit off. What is stored in my memory banks is this: Truth or Consequences had been on television for some time with some old dude as its host, and I had been a reasonably loyal viewer. Then one day, the old dude introduced a young … Continue reading Bob the Barker
Kwai Me a River
After The Bridge on the River Kwai was released, the magazines that printed a joke section all seemed to have some variation of this one: I came across a fellow peeling onions on a bridge and when I asked him why, he said he wanted to see the bridge on the river cry. Even at eight … Continue reading Kwai Me a River