My Dad bought a 1949 Mercury with 5,000 miles on it. A guy from California had bought it in Ca. and had the cam changed, aluminum heads and 2 deuces put on it. Drove it to Graham and traded it in on another 1949 Merc. Anyway this car was the fastest thing around the area. The Highway Patrol wouldn't even try to chase him. Anyway my Mother was driving it and a guy ran a stop sign and knocked the car and my Mother into the old Graham swimming pool. Totaled the car, Mama wasn't hurt bad but my Dad always blamed her for wrecking his car. He still talked about 50 years later.

Folks just got back from Big Bend
My dad is oddly standing next to a tall cactus while wearing hi-vis knee high white socks that could be seen from five miles away

They took us trick or treating on the wrong night once.

I�m guessing you got some candy though

Maybe the most under-hyped story in the history of the OT...and �kind of a boring story�? If that�s what you really believe, please tell some from your �really� boring ones!!! Man, that monkey in the minnow seine hi-jinx was pure gold!!!!

*Yucca.

Well, Dad was a horse trader. Foundation Quarter Horses. We had Poco Dunny Cash, the last breeding grandson of Poco Bueno, great-grandson of Doc's Diablo. And I still own the last Colt of his, a fine mare. That's just for background. Dad knew a lot of people. Once in the early 80's a man showed up with a briefcase of cash for Dad to find some foundation mares and studs to send to a ranch in Mexico. It took a little doing, but Dad put together a lot of 12 mares and 4 studs to send down. They wanted them flown down. I'd never flown and neither had any of these horses. We met the vet at the airfield (Austin International, back when it was on Airport Road). The vet gave each horse a shot to calm them for the flight. One of the studs didn't take well to the shot and flattened one of our temporary working panels. After that, pretty much every horse available decided to go plumb apeshit, the mares especially. We only had to get them to the airport, so Dad grabbed my shoulder, we quietly walked to our truck and trailer. We hopped in the truck and hammered down. I looked back to see a dozen mares kicking holes in airplanes. I didn't know plane skins were so thin.

That is funny, Poco Bueno is buried close to my ranch.

When I was a toddler, I was standing next to my father when he was loading something into the trunk of our car. He then slammed the trunk closed and the lid hit me in the head and knocked me unconscious

Listed me as executor of their will, when I asked why, they said I was the only one they could trust to distribute their assets according to their wishes.

Slow Drifter, I�m trying to imagine your poor mother climbing up that antenna to shoo the monkey. Brings to mind Jerry Clower, �shoot up here amongst us, one of us gots to have some relief�. Just based on these two stories, you might want to consider writing a book.

Can still happen once in awhile. Was working at DFW in 2002 for a commuter airline, where they board multiple smaller planes out of the same gate. Somehow a lady went to the wrong plane and took her seat. You'd think she might've wondered why there was nobody else on the plane, not even a flight attendant. I only found her because I'd gone inside to secure everything (remove power and A/C) to have the plane towed away for maintenance.

Wouldn't it have been interesting if she ended up in the maintenance hangar?

Got bit by a muskrat

My ex-mother-in-law would all of a sudden remember she needed to buy something and would tell us to pull in to the next store - no matter what kind of store it was. "Pull in here, I need to buy some yarn." OK, but this is a 7-11, they don't sell yarn. She would go in an try to buy some anyway.

So one time she points and says to pull into a parking lot so she can go in and buy some apples. It was a lawyer's office.

A few minutes later she comes out with a lunch bag with 2 or 3 apples in it. Seems the receptionist was terrified of the crazy lady trying to buy apples at a lawyer's office, so she went and raided the lunch room fridge to sell her what they had just to get her out of there.