Myrl is absolutely right when she talks about different realities among people. We all have our own versions even though we might be looking at exactly the same thing. That's why eyewitness accounts of a traffic accident can vary so widely. Take my fishing trip with Myrl Jeffcoat yesterday. She says I chose the front seat, but that wasn't exactly what happened.
I chose the passenger side of the vehicle but not the front seat. I did not know where Myrl envisioned me seating so, like a good little guest along for the ride on this fishing expedition, I stood at the passenger side and waited for her to open one of the doors.
Just a few minutes earlier, we had been standing outside of Myrl's house, her clan gathered, daughter, son, daughter-in-law and a pack of grandchildren, as the kids loaded stuff into the back of the vehicle. I can't tell how old kids are anymore. One of the kids was 7 and another was 11 but they were the same height. Another kid, Ryan, sat in the driver's seat, and I was thinking, yeah, right, like you are going to drive. He looked to be all of 10.
So when Myrl opened the front passenger door, I climbed in. She went around to the other side. Ryan closed the door on the driver's side and put the key in the ignition. Isn't this cute? They are going to let him drive this thing down the driveway and into the street. But, then Myrl called out from the back seat: turn left, and away we went.
Oh, well, like I told Myrl later, how much damage could we do at 30 MPH? I wasn't likely to die. Unless we got smacked in the middle of an intersection, and even then I was pretty high off the ground. Yeah, and there was that stop Ryan tried to make but didn't and rolled into the red light, where he threw his hands up into the air and said he had to keep going now. We could have all died at that point, but we didn't. Worst that happened was fruit salad dumped upside down.
Can't say I have ever in my life driven with a 15-year-old behind the wheel. But then, I don't have grand kids. To have those, I'd have to have kids and none of those, either.
But this Sacramento short sale agent did take a day off yesterday, and she went fishing with Myrl and her family at Nimbus Dam. Although we didn't catch any fish, some things in life are more important than catching fish. Sometimes it's just standing in the cool water holding a fishing pole and watching your bobber when it's 105 in the shade in Sacramento.
Sometimes, it is sitting under a tree and doing nothing. What is this tree that Myrl and I sat under? Myrl, her daughter Tammy, daughter-in-law Wendy and I lounged about under this tree and talked. It was a perfect afternoon. Great way to beat the heat, too. The breeze coming across the lake was refreshing. Ryan said the cones on this tree looked like pine cones. But I think they might be acorns. And I suspect this tree is a live oak of some sort. What do you think?
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