Car
Games by Edwin R. Ellis
Our oldest
daughter Jackie lived with her husband Larry and their daughter Michelle. They
lived about 150 miles west of our home in Toledo, Ohio. Helping a customer
obtain his property from a business which closing required a rented Hertz
truck, vehicle trailer and a long day on the road. The customer picked me up at
our home near Akron and we obtained the rental truck and loaded the castings
and patterns taking them to a warehouse in Lansing Michigan. The customer’s
vehicle was placed on the trailer.
Instead of making
the three hundred mile trip back to my house in Ohio, the customer dropped me
at our daughter house where I spent the night playing with our 12 year old granddaughter,
Michelle. The next morning we drove the hundred and fifty miles to our home.
Jackie and Larry in front, Michelle and myself on the back seat. We all engaged
in the normal car games of punch buggy and the pursuit of trivia. We started
with questions like: name all the state capitols which start with the letter
“A.” Not only are we required to get the number correct, we needed to name the
capitols to avoid guessing. If you answered the question correctly, you could
ask the next question.
Michelle sat next
to me pondering and pondering the question searching her mind for the correct
answer. She was eager to ask a question. Shifting back and forth under her seat
belt searching her mind. She looked over at me in wondering stare. Why would I
ask such a difficult question? When the answer came, it almost caused a traffic
accident.
Michelle politely
replied, "Grandpa they haven't taught us that in school yet."
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