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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:47:54 EST
Subject: #331 Richard Keech College Days 6
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#331 Newsletter February 25, 2007
©copyright 2007 by Richard Keech
Letter from Richard dated February 14. I have deleted the personal portions.
Dear Joan,
I didn’t get to watch the Superbowl this year. Most years I do. I could now if I would give in and let someone give me a television. But, in prison they become mind numbing devices.
The prison thinks that’s a good idea, I don’t.
In the Superbowl game I was betting on the Colts, but that’s because I always bet on the underdog, even when I think he’s going to lose.
Life goes on here at High Desert in spite of me. (As it always has, anyway.)
I think I shall continue to write about my Mexican Gardener, the Señor. I am not a fan of California for law and order.
Thank you for the excellent job you are doing in editing and printing my stories.
as ever - your friend
Dick Keech
semper fidelis
Now to continue with Richard’s stories of life under the GI Bill.
COLLEGE DAYS 6
That week end I drive it back to college, after meeting with Mr. Morse and changing my insurance over.
I'm going to college in a sporty new car. Life can’t get any better than that. Each weekend I drive back to Long Beach to "date" Kay.
Kay is learning to drive and loves to drive the new
Studebaker. She also reports that she gets to drive the pretty Ford roadster owned by the brother of Earl Chaplin, Merle Chaplin, with whom she now rides to work. They are both working at the same bank at the moment.
"I'm getting pretty good at using the clutch. I have been practicing on Merle’s car as we go to work. He lets me drive it.”
Merle is a nice guy, but I am not happy with other
nice guys doing favors for my girl friend.
"You need a car of your own," I suggest. "Have you thought about that? This is Southern California. Everyone has a car.”
"Yes. I have. But I wouldn’t know how to find a good one that I could afford."
"No problem. We'll go looking together. This will give us a project to work on as a team. Do you want to look at Fords, Chevies or Plymouths?"
"I think I like the Fords the best"
So we start out on a fun shopping tour for the next several months.
The thing is no one can really afford to buy a car.
You keep Iooking until you fall in love with one, Then you
figure out how to pay for it.
We do this for months. Kay has nailed down what she likes. It has to be a Ford with its peppy V8 engine, and should be a coupe or a roadster.
One Saturday night at a second hand car lot on Signal Hill Kay finds that car she’s looking for. And falls in love with it. It is a 36 Ford V8 coupe that is in perfect shape. We take a ride in it. We pretend to negotiate with the dealer. (He will get the deal he wants. We are amateurs talking to a master negotiator.) But he really does give us a fair deal (I think). And Kay drives off with a "classic" 36 Ford coupe. It’s a beauty. Kay loves it. We will never get another car that she loves as much.
TO BE CONTINUED
Richard Keech
semper fi
www.Richard-Keech.org
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