[Ducati] Fred! Olde memories brought back

[Alec Moss]

Nice!





On 5/12/08 8:40 PM, "HOPPER ELDRIDGE" <hoppereldridge at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Well, Uncle Sam and I got divorced in '71 I guess (still paying "aliMONIES" to
> him through his agent, the IRS!), so it would have been in the late '69 to
> '71/'72. Wonderful times! Shame Kalifornia is so screwed up now. I left when
> it was just beginning to get real "unfun".
>    
>   As an addenum to the story about my Dad and his bikes...this weekend, Mom
> called and her microwave had finally given up the ghost. How Mom got the
> microwave is the real story, though.
>    
>   I had already told how Dad got another Hardley after my sister had flown the
> coop and he'd retired. I had come down to visit and he called me out to the
> garage and I figured he had some new project going. He was always doing things
> with his hands. So I walked out to the garage and Mom immediately followed so
> i figured it had to be something special. Well, in the garage sat a '77
> ElectraGlide and he was HAPPY to say the least. Mom was tickled too, but what
> had transpired before I showed up was of interest. Mom hated cooking (still a
> good cook though!) and wanted one fo the new fangled microwaves that were just
> becoming more readily available, but my Dad, knowing the power of radar, said
> "Nope, too dangerous!". Well, when Dad rode up to the house on his new Hogley,
> Mom let it be know in no uncertain terms that if he could kill himself on a
> bike, she sure could kill herself with a microwave!!! Well, Mom got her top of
> the line microwave the next day!
>    
>   I pulled it out to the street this afternoon (weighs a TON!!!), feeling
> guilty as hell about it too! And got her new microwave hooked up. I checked
> for a date on the back...June of '79. She got her "mileage" out of it! So,
> Dad's bike is long gone and soon Mom's microwave too, and guess Mom not too
> much longer either....
>    
>   Hopper
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