has made a couple of runs but this year we're adding another one.
The crisp evening fall run.
The Grandfather's Club has dwindled to two members from four. Two of us are now gone. One gave us warning, the other suddenly left without warning. There are now only two of us or three if you count the oldest teenager.
The Grandfather's Club is an entirely criminal organization that knowingly, willingly and recklessly endangers the life of young people. We do this by taking youngsters for a ride through farm country on sultry evenings unsecured in the back of an open pickup truck.
I became offered a membership even though I have no children and hence no grandchildren. I was invited because I own a pickup truck and none of them did.
The gig is fairly simple. the kids are taken north of Portersville in ordinary cars safely strapped in. We meet and transfer the kids to the open bed of my pickup and haul them through farm country at the dizzying speed of about thirty miles an hour.
They get to take in the sights, sounds and scents of farm country for an hour or two and then return to the cars and get taken home. The Grandfathers meet to strike a blow for liberty over a bottle of bourbon and then the meeting is over.
It started as three families of grandchildren and continues as such. What is interesting is that even though the kids have grown into teenagers they look forward to it.
They also know that this is illegal and it was funny listening to a ten year old say that they'd never take him alive.
The oldest of the grandkids got his license a while back and had the duty of being the designated driver for the three grandfathers. Now he has only one grandfather to take home. It is not his.
Still, he pitches in and looks forward to it. I guess this upcoming summer he will be replaced by the next in line because one of the girls has her license. I hear murmurings of the young man heading into the Navy come next summer.
It gladdens my heart to take these young people out and callously and recklessly endanger their lives. They truly enjoy it.
What's more important is that I am helping not to create a future generation of criminals, but of outlaws.
These kids will remember the rides through the farmlands and they will also remember that it is illegal. They will grow up knowing the difference between doing something illegal and being a criminal and that is always a good thing. It's always good to know there's a future generation of outlaws coming along.
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It's good to teach them there is a difference :-)
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