Starting in about 5th grade, I left school about 20 minutes early every Tuesday- walked to the bus stop at the Jiffy Lunch Café (motto- "Watch it cook") in Tenino, Washington, got a ticket on the Greyhound and rode, by myself, about 10 miles to Centralia, where I got off out in the country and walked a quarter mile to my violin lesson. Would sit by some interesting characters- once by an intoxicated cowboy, in full fringed white leather jacket, neckerchief, silver-tipped boots, the whole 9 yards, who claimed to have been Roy Roger's horse trainer. How silly was that- Trigger was so smart he didn't need a trainer!
Another time, by Mr. McDaniel, who claimed to own the telephone company in a neighboring small town. I managed to keep a straight face, but was really yucking it up when telling the folks that night- nobody "owns" a telephone company, its just something that's there, right? Dad went and got a phone book, and I'll be dipped, under the name of that town it showed "McDaniel Telephone Company". Years later, I lived near that town, and told the story to McDaniel's son, who was then running the company. He got a real kick out of it- he asked his dad if he remember the incident, but of course he didn't remember that, or much else, at that point in his life. He was able to find his way to and from the local restaurant every noon for lunch. Everybody knew his car, and quietly turned off onto side streets or people's driveways when they saw him coming, because you never knew what portion of the road he would be using that particular day. His son likened it to a daily "parting of the Red Sea".
As for my youthful bus rides, I wonder how many years in prison my folks would get these days for letting me do that?
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