Sandi: I must have missed this when it was originally published back in 2010 but I sure am glad it popped up on my ATP home page ... it has me grinning from ear to ear! What a great story, I truly enjoyed reading it and it sure made me laugh! My husband was wondering what was so funny so I had to read it to him and he's grinning too. I wonder what that young man eventually did about his smashed Camaro? I hope he still thinks about his actions that night and I truly hope he learned a lesson! It would be wonderful if say fifteen or twenty years from now he could read your article. I really think you should consider submitting this story for publication in your local newspaper!

Thanks for enjoying my life experience! We had thought about setting the balls in concrete out front again, but new neighbors are moving in and once again we have teenagers. Too much temptation, so I think we'll leave them in the backyard now.
As for the car, it was replaced by a little truck.

Yep, what goes around comes around. Great story! Bet that kid never goes bowling!

Here's another story you may enjoy. It's sort of an amusing gardening story, I think.

http://cubits.org/texasgardeni...

Oh my goodness ... I LOVED it! Sandi, you really do have a way with words and writing, making the reader feel like they are right there in the story! You my friend should write a book of short stories!

Lin, no one would believe most of them! I seem to find "humor" in teasing my family. Here's the one I wrote about welcoming our new son-in-law into our wacky family.

http://cubits.org/texasgardeni...

Sandi, I am laughing so hard! What a great wedding ... and a great family!! Thanks so much for sharing these stories!

I appreciate you reading them!

Cheryl: I really loved each one of your stories! You should make and laminate copies for your family and keep them in a safe place for future generations. I know they will surely love the family stories ... and a few will probably realize what relative they got their sense of humor from!

Hmmm....that possibly could be used to have me committed one day! The 6 yr old daughter of DH’s niece asked me to sign a small watercolor I did for her when we were in IL one Christmas. About a month later, the niece called to tell us her daughter’s teacher had asked her about some tall tale the first grader was telling the class about her aunt in TX. Seems the child had taken the watercolor to “show and tell’ and insisted it was done by her crazy aunt that lived in the basement in TX. DH’s niece took the painting out of the frame and showed the teacher that I had indeed signed it on the back....”Aunt Sandi, your crazy aunt that lives in the basement.”

Every family has a crazy aunt that lives in the basement, don't they?

hee hee, well I don't have any aunts still on this earth (that I know of) and I don't remember having any crazy ones that lived in a basement ... but ya never know!

I truly love your sense of humor and I'm sure all of your family members do too ... if not, they're sure losing out on the joy!

Okay, I quit! I would love to have a basement! I have to finish shoving plants into the greenhouse. It's nearly 80° here, but I know winter's coming...someday!