bamabikeguy
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(a real telephone conversation)...."Hello?"
"Good morning Mrs. Canter. This is that bike guy, I had a message your husband called."
"Oh, he's already down at Jack's, on that bike you built him. You turned my 80 year old husband into a durn kid".
When I finally got hold of her 6'4", 250 pound senior citizen "kid", with his 2 artificial knees, the remark that caused the most laughter was him saying "and the next thing you know I was in Georgia !!".
A week ago, I got another phone call, from an even older potential MBer down thataway, Mr. Canter had given him one of my "Statelines Crossed" flyers.
He said he didn't know how to type, but he sure has learned how to click. Wanting to know where he could read about that recent trip, I sent a link to his wife or daughter's e-mail, (I'm not sure which).
Well, yesterday I got another call from him, he said he found MB.com, and has spent day and night (because its been raining EVERY day and night) reading about all the fun we are having.
Then he's been going down to Jack's in the morning, and relaying the stories to Mr. Canter and the sausage biscuit crowd. MB adventures plus Mr. Canter's newfound toy are now the stuff of legend.
When he asked me where some more of the Crossing Stateline stories were, I had to explain to him, that well, er...bits and pieces are all over the place.
Some of the better ones from 2006 are in a blog that I forgot the name of, much less the password to.
And how his inability to type various internet addresses, and my inability to organize worth a **** kind of made that a tough proposition.
BUT/SO/ & HENCE I do not want to disappoint this unlimited coffee refill crowd 90 minutes south, their gardens are too muddy to plow anyway.
I'm going to see if I can't find a few of the loose, lost tales and do some lazy copying and pasting. Remember, "In No Particular Order" is exactly which way a thread entitled"Lost Tales" is supposed to go.
Apologies if you've read some of them before, but as they say, we gotta be KID Friendly, (even if all "the kids" are getting 10% Senior Citizen discounts.)
"Good morning Mrs. Canter. This is that bike guy, I had a message your husband called."
"Oh, he's already down at Jack's, on that bike you built him. You turned my 80 year old husband into a durn kid".
When I finally got hold of her 6'4", 250 pound senior citizen "kid", with his 2 artificial knees, the remark that caused the most laughter was him saying "and the next thing you know I was in Georgia !!".
A week ago, I got another phone call, from an even older potential MBer down thataway, Mr. Canter had given him one of my "Statelines Crossed" flyers.
He said he didn't know how to type, but he sure has learned how to click. Wanting to know where he could read about that recent trip, I sent a link to his wife or daughter's e-mail, (I'm not sure which).
Well, yesterday I got another call from him, he said he found MB.com, and has spent day and night (because its been raining EVERY day and night) reading about all the fun we are having.
Then he's been going down to Jack's in the morning, and relaying the stories to Mr. Canter and the sausage biscuit crowd. MB adventures plus Mr. Canter's newfound toy are now the stuff of legend.
When he asked me where some more of the Crossing Stateline stories were, I had to explain to him, that well, er...bits and pieces are all over the place.
Some of the better ones from 2006 are in a blog that I forgot the name of, much less the password to.
And how his inability to type various internet addresses, and my inability to organize worth a **** kind of made that a tough proposition.
BUT/SO/ & HENCE I do not want to disappoint this unlimited coffee refill crowd 90 minutes south, their gardens are too muddy to plow anyway.
I'm going to see if I can't find a few of the loose, lost tales and do some lazy copying and pasting. Remember, "In No Particular Order" is exactly which way a thread entitled"Lost Tales" is supposed to go.
Apologies if you've read some of them before, but as they say, we gotta be KID Friendly, (even if all "the kids" are getting 10% Senior Citizen discounts.)