Even though my Grandpa Doc is no longer with me today, his signature anecdote will remain forever. As we would sit on his front porch, swaying back-and-forth in his gazebo, the ageless story would reinvent itself time after time. They arrived in his driveway on a hot summer afternoon in 1962. The knocks coming from the front door startled the forlorn young widower. A novice inventor at the time, he put away his current contraption and …showed first 75 words of 875 total…

…showed last 75 words of 875 total…hear my grandfather yelling back on the other side of the receiver, “What!” “Yes, I’m not lying, they’ve been taken from you and sold!” hollered back my mother. I could go on and tell you all the details, like how grandpa decided not to sue, but I think it is better left unsaid. It goes without saying, that “pregnant” Japanese woman outsmarted my Grandpa Doc for more that any blacktop job was worth.