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Ron, Joe, Larry and Leo: A Crash Course in People

Tom Clancy once said, "Every person you meet is another opportunity to learn." He said it like it was a good thing, but after my latest camping experience I've just had a crash course in people--and it wasn't my favorite. We pulled into camp to find a boyscout troop taking up one of the areas and three single guys taking up all the rest. My dad quickly made friends with RON who said we could share his fire pit. JOE said we were good to pull in as well. Unfortunately, we didn't check with LARRY as he wasn't even in our immediate vicinity. Had I known about LEO, we may never have pulled in at all. Before we'd been there long, Larry (the guy we didn't check with) had turned up his eclectic oldies-country-jazz-big band music as loud as he could without blowing a speaker, then waited for me to go fight with him about it. Honestly, some of it wasn't bad, but I swear he was trying to find all his B-sides. I was really nice as I told him my "s...

Deep Thoughts From Crash #5

Crash: The earth will be in the same place it was when I was born in one month and twelve days. Me: You mean on your birthday? Crash: Yeah but "birthday" is a dumb name for it. Every day is a day. Only one day a year is when the earth is in the right spot for my birthday. Me: Okay, well, we'll be wishing you a Happy Birth-the-earth-is-in-the-same-spot-relative-to-the-sun-as-it-was-the-day-you-were-born-day when you turn twelve then. Crash: Thanks, Mom. It's so nice you understand me. Okay, I made that last line up. I don't really understand him and he knows it. But I try.