For a reader
who likes these kinds of posts.
In the area
where I went to high school, there was a ranch family well known for their stubbornness.
Maybe, not just stubborn, but bat shit crazy stubborn.
The sons
were good athletes, wrestlers, who won state championships. The eldest placed 2nd
in the AAU Nationals as a high school senior. This was before Title IX, so who
knows what the daughters could have accomplished. Poor girls, it took a very
brave teenager to date them. One fall, the two oldest boys bet each other who
would be the first to put on a shirt when it got cold. Neither would give in.
As soon as they got home, coats and shirts came off. Finally, about December,
their mother put an end to their contest.
The oldest,
some years after graduating from high school, got a speeding ticket from the
town jackass (who later went to prison for theft). Angry, he hired a lawyer to
fight a $10 ticket.
The lawyer
did some research, and found the town was never legally incorporated although
operating as a town for 70+ years, and, for legal purposes, didn’t exist.
Ticket dismissed. The uproar from that was hilarious, as the town fathers and
city lawyer scrambled to gain legal status. Folks started demanding their taxes
be paid back. Many traffic offenses were appealed. Sure made for an interesting
winter.
The traffic scofflaw
wasn’t too popular with a lot of people. His response was the Hawaiian love
salute.
