turtle

Anyway, I promised you a turtle story... When Sue was much younger and in college, she lived in a house with 3 girls and unbeknownst to my parents, at least 2 boyfriends. A great deal of - well, lets just say "partying" - went on there all day and night. For some reason that none of them remembered, they obtained a full size box turtle. One of them brought it in from somewhere, it didn't just crawl in for shelter from the wilderness. They had two kittens., so they figure it ate the cat food. Their apartment was trashed, and occasionally when they were "mellow", the turtle would just crawl across the floor, and they would say, "Hey, man! There goes the turtle!" The odd tie-in of this story to my life is that Sue flunked out of school, and Dad took my much beloved friend David, who at that time was Dad's employee and not yet my friend, to bring her stuff back home to Falls Church (where Dad and David were both at Dulin UMC To be continued...