[Magdalen] Everett @ the DMV.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Sounds like that young man might have ADD.  Because that is the sort of
thing I would do, and the false memory can be so convincing.  I keep an
extra memory and bring it with me most places. It's called an understanding
and patient wife.



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 5/9/16 11:36 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>
>> Selective Service:  I'll ask his teacher.  You'd think it would have been
>> mentioned by now.  Is Selective Service still a Thing?
>>
>>
>>
> I wonder whether you were in the room any of the times I told one of my
> favorite stories about voting, particularly relevant this election year,
> and forever relevant to the nature of teen boys.
>
> A few years ago I was working Election Boards when a local boy wandered in
> expecting to vote for the first time.  No question of ID or voter fraud, we
> all knew the kid.  But he wasn't on the voter registration list that came
> from the County Clerk's office.  He insisted that he had registered,
> remembered going into town to do it, brought back a "piece of paper" that
> said he was registered (which he didn't have with him). The head Judge
> there even phoned the County Clerk's Office, who said he wasn't
> registered.  He got all hot and bothered, said he was going to go home and
> find that paper, and take it into town and wave it in their faces.  A few
> hours later, his stepmother came by to vote after she got off work, so we
> asked her whether he'd gotten it straightened out.  She said, "Yeah.  He
> was registered.  For the draft."
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>