The day before Thanksgiving 1976 brought an ice storm to the Kansas City metro area and I’d wrecked my third car, the Trailways busses didn’t run, and my friend from Humansville Mark Miller and I tried going South and got as far as Grandview when he spun out and we retreated back to the dormitory.
My mother had Thanksgiving planned and I called her, and said Mama, I just can’t make it.
Within a few minutes, her sister, my Aunt Mildred called and said Uncle Ben was coming back from his trucking run to St. Joseph and he’d be glad to stop by the dorm and drive me home.
His green 1970 Chevy truck pulled up to the dorm and off we traveled, headed East on I-70 past the ice, then South on 13 to home.
I’d bought a Grabow filter pipe and a pouch of Half and Half and I discovered three things that long ago night.
First, a man who drives a semi for a living is a lot better driver than the rest of us can ever be.
Second, grown ups drink their coffee black by the thermos full. Coffee is the elixir of life as we know it, and spices up stories of invading France with Patton’s Third Army, and is indispensable to life in America.
And Grabow filter pipes really do allow a beginner (or anybody experienced as well) to have a cool, dry and sweet smoke without tongue bite, and smoke a pouch of Half and Half and enjoy it.
In a world where too many things change, good family, good coffee, and good Dr Grabow filter pipes stay constant and true.
My mother had Thanksgiving planned and I called her, and said Mama, I just can’t make it.
Within a few minutes, her sister, my Aunt Mildred called and said Uncle Ben was coming back from his trucking run to St. Joseph and he’d be glad to stop by the dorm and drive me home.
His green 1970 Chevy truck pulled up to the dorm and off we traveled, headed East on I-70 past the ice, then South on 13 to home.
I’d bought a Grabow filter pipe and a pouch of Half and Half and I discovered three things that long ago night.
First, a man who drives a semi for a living is a lot better driver than the rest of us can ever be.
Second, grown ups drink their coffee black by the thermos full. Coffee is the elixir of life as we know it, and spices up stories of invading France with Patton’s Third Army, and is indispensable to life in America.
And Grabow filter pipes really do allow a beginner (or anybody experienced as well) to have a cool, dry and sweet smoke without tongue bite, and smoke a pouch of Half and Half and enjoy it.
In a world where too many things change, good family, good coffee, and good Dr Grabow filter pipes stay constant and true.
