Don Parker, 1952 Chevi Seattle
wonderful memory that will last a lifetime. Shortly after we moved to Seattle, my Dad came out to stay with us for a few weeks. We enjoyed his company and took him sightseeing often. One day we took him up the road to the Snowqualmie Falls about 30 minutes from our home. Just before leaving, we asked if he needed to use the clean, modern and readily available bathroom facilities and he declined. About 10 minutes into the trip home he decided that he had to go to the bathroom and he told us to pull over at this bar that he just saw on the main road so we did. A few minutes later he came out running to say that he had gone in and used their toilet but it someone’ s house and not a public bar! We laughed all the way home and still laugh about it today.
Another friend of mine in Seattle had a buddy that was a state trooper. At a dinner
Don Parker, Seattle one night, I mentioned that I was interested in guns and he invited Luke and me to his range. Wow, we were very excited as this was a private state trooper range and Luke had never shot a gun. He spent some time teaching Luke about safety and what to expect when he shot the revolver. Then he put one bullet in the chamber and Luke fired this. 38 caliber revolver at the target. I watched his face which revealed total excitement as the gun recoiled more than he expected. My boy was now a man! We wound up shooting quite a bit that day as he literally had a barrel full of ammunition. We had to quit when our fingers were so sore that we could not load anymore!
My sister Linda and her family( Pete, Nicole and Meghann) came out to visit us and we took them all over including a ferry trip to Victoria Island in Canada.
Victoria Island, Canada
I had another buddy in Seattle who was a gynecologist and he was a bit of a practical joker. Anytime he received a visitor, such a drug rep, he would make sure that the rep was to stand outside of an exam room and when my buddy came out he shook hands. But, just prior to coming out of the exam room he would put gel on his hands as if he did not wash himself after an examination. It was always funny to see their reaction. I helped him with some marketing projects to boost business to his incontinence based practice. Just before he was headed to a gynecologist convention he asked me to get some business cards printed which I did. But I
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