Archive for November, 2009
Borrowing Dads Car
November 12th, 2009 | 
Author: I’m sure that many of you reading this will remember borrowing your Dad’s car. I know one person, Roger Pelletier, who should remember it better than most. The year is 1964 or 1965. Roger and I had our driver’s licenses but we did not have our own cars. Usually we were able to borrow one from one of our Dads.
One evening, Roger and I jumped in his Dad’s car, a 1957 green Ford Fairlane. Off we went to a local shopping center restaurant where there were always some friends hanging out. I have no idea how long we stayed, an hour or two perhaps, because we had to be home by probably nine or ten on a school night.
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That Damned Woodpecker
I was in my teens and in high school. Which year? I’m not sure, perhaps ninth grade. One summer I was invited to spend a few weeks at a friend’s summer cottage on Lake Echo in the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal. My friend was Peter Rawlings. He had an older brother, George, named after his dad and his mum, Winnie. This was a great place to be. We could water ski, swim, play in the recreation hall that was co-owned, I believe, by the cottagers around the lake. Life was good.
Glory Glory Glory – There was Glory all around!
A moment not to be forgotten; in the sixties there was a carpet cleaning product called “GloryTM”. It came in a spray can. To use it, one would turn the can over so that the top is towards the bottom and much like canned whipped cream, press the nozzle sideways and a ball of white foam would exit the canister.
