When I was younger, and working the counter, there was a customer I’d hang out with. \u00c2\u00a0We’d chit chat while waiting for something, he’d talk, and I’d talk. \u00c2\u00a0I’d throw crazy ideas at him. \u00c2\u00a0Being a teenager, I wanted to customize my car – so I would think of all kinds of crazy things to think of to add to it. \u00c2\u00a0Take away from it. \u00c2\u00a0Change. \u00c2\u00a0Whatever. \u00c2\u00a0I think I told him a crazy idea, he told me I was crazy and it would never work, and we’d both laugh. \u00c2\u00a0We did this at least once a week for two or three years. \u00c2\u00a0I think the car would have cost a million dollars or so by the end and weighed about 5,000 pounds. \u00c2\u00a0It was a blast.<\/p>\n
I still come up with crazy\/stupid things like that and would like to tell him sometime. \u00c2\u00a0Here’s to you, the Archbishop’s father-in-law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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