{"id":87,"date":"2014-02-12T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2014-02-12T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T21:28:08","slug":"grade-school-cabbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/grade-school-cabbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade School Cabbie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another Whipper Barony tale!<\/p>\n

My sister and I went to St John’s Catholic Elementary School near the Navy Base in Charleston, SC. Just about everyone else went across Rivers Ave to Ben Tillman Public School. I always dreamed of being able to ride a big yellow school bus like everyone else in the neighborhood. (That would have to wait until high school.)<\/p>\n

When Dad was not deployed, he would drive us to school and be there to pick us up in the afternoon. Mom never learned to drive and never<\/i> rode in the front seat of our car. She did not want to know how fast Dad was going.<\/p>\n

Anyway, there came the year my Dad was reassigned to Guam. He went unaccompanied.<\/p>\n

Well, how do we get to school now Mom? Why you will take a taxi cab son. Every morning like clockwork a black and white cab would pull up at our house and park on the street. Everyday after school let out there would be a black and white cab in the parking lot. I never saw Mom pay the driver and I don’t remember if it was always the same driver.<\/p>\n

You know what I do<\/i> remember? How big the back seat of that cab was and how far it seemed to be from the front seat. You could have put a whole ‘nother bench in there facing backwards and still had foot room!<\/p>\n

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