My Dad with his first car in 1954

Today was more of the same from yesterday. I’m still working on Day 4 of the Armchair Genealogist‘s writing challenge. I’m about two-thirds of the way through his letters from 1956. I found a few passages in letters that I think will work well in the history. Here is one I really enjoyed.

Hey, let me tell you how I fixed a couple of guys here. Anyway, Friday I checked in and went to work, and these two guys kept bragging about the good time they had made running a one-mile course. And they had been running it every day so they were in condition to do it. So I said let’s go out at noon time and run it for fun. They kept riding me about how they would slow down and not run too fast for me. So I just said to myself I will just show these two birds who will have to slow down. Anyhow, I ran them into the ground and best them both by several hundred yards. No more remarks from them then it was my turn to give them a bad time.

Here are a few things that I gleaned from today’s reading:

• friends make life fun
• being busy helps pass the time
• he had the same pair of loafers for 5 years
• he likes to buy and listen to records
• likes miniature rose better than full size roses
• called is car “old junk” it was built in 1948
• embarrassed about his childhood nickname
• reliable
• responsible
• realistic
• private
• respects others
• caring
• helpful
• service minded
• needs some solitude
• likes cold milk
• desires self-improvement and goal oriented
• knows his weaknesses
• his friends tease him too
• thought of himself as “just a sailor”
• protective
• competitive
• athletic
• confidence in teamwork
• learns from experience
• not very close to his family
• honest