Re: Whew! More Pleasant Story

[Jim Davis <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 9:46:25 PM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:

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> Now the rest of the story as they say.  If you notice I did not place
> a name of the drivers that picked me up and moved me across the country.
> I knew them by first name then.  Today, I couldn't even venture a guess.
> Not that it was not important but it was like two ships passing in the
> night.  I know I will never meet them again.  I doubt they will remember
> my name but I hope that they remember that once upon a time they picked
> up a sailor on a road and took him part way across the country to his
> home in Pennsylvania.
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> Thinking about it, what would really be cool would be for one of those
> drivers be reading this story and make contact with me.
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> Naaaaa what are the odds....................................
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> End of story!!
> Sorry for any typo's!!
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> Les

I've thought more than a few times that maybe I should have stayed in Flori=
da. But the urge to "go home" was to great.=20

OH! and I just remembered ------ talk about missed opportunities ----- on t=
he way home on the plane, I sat next to a good looking blond, couple years =
older than me. We got talking (what else could I do :-) I told her I was ju=
st getting out of the Navy and that I worked in communications. She said th=
at she was going to Newark NJ to work on starting up a new broadcast statio=
n and that if I was interested in interviewing for a job she would recommen=
d me. I took her phone number and her personal phone number too and thought=
 I'd give it a try.=20

Of course, as soon as I got home, seeing all my friends and old girlfriends=
 became important and next thing I knew I'd run out of money and had to get=
 a job pretty quick. I forgot all about the girl I met on the plane or at l=
east put it off and once I got a local job I forgot about it completely. A =
few years later, I made the connection that what she was talking about is w=
hat was the beginning of what is now the PBS networks when they started bro=
adcasting out of Newark NJ. Who knows, maybe I could have gotten in on the =
ground floor. Not only with the girl but the job too >:->

HeY "I cudda been a contenda" (Marlin Brando)