Legally, Does My Child Have Rights?

[BILLY D.]

Hey Skeeter

Your not the only one that had trouble with a Grandfathers old sayings. There was stuff he told me when I was a kid that I never figured out till I hit my late 20's or so.

He once told me in the late forties or early 50's that someday the United States and Russia would exchange ends on the political spectrum. At the time all I could think was "the old man finally blew his cork".

Well I'll be dang if it ain't happening as we speak. Russia is becoming more democratic and we, the U.S. is becoming more Socialistic.

Another good one was one summer day the girl from across the street and I were picking grapes out in Grandpa and Grandmas yard and there was a swing there underneath the grape trellis and we were talking like kids do and I fell in love. Or thought it was anyway. So I gave her a peck on the cheek. Guess who came around from the other side of the trellis? YUP. Grandpa. Julie, the girl was so embarassed she about went up in smoke, and she absented the yard post haste. After she was out of hearing Granpa lit into me like a Southern Baptist preacher on a pulpit. He asked me if that was the girl I wanted to spend the rest of my life with? I said gee Gramps it was just a little peck on the cheek and I'm only xx years old. He said "thats how things get started". Sheesh, scared the heck out of me. Two days later I kissed her again on the school bus. I don't know if it was love or just a mean streak directed at my Grandpa.

I would have spent the rest of my life with her but it just didn't work out that way.

Best wishes, Bill