Category: Slightly Wiser
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My First Car
In My First Car, Grandpa wants his own car. He is 16, it is 1973 and he doesn’t want to wait until he is 18. He has money from jobs and the recent sale of Brandy (his pony). Great Grandpa and Grandma Hill (his parents) do not want to repeat what happened to Grandpa’s…
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Driver’s Test
Grandpa tells the story of his first and only driver’s test, with his family’s old stick shift 1970 (and 1/2) Ford Torino. On this driver’s test the officer giving the test asked Grandpa a very important question, “Do you know how fast you are going?”
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Lost With The Kitties
In this Grandpa Hill Slightly Wiser True Story, Grandpa loses a child at the Columbus Ohio City Zoo. Grandpa Hill had a system to make it easy for a lost child to find him. He wears a yellow shirt. The yellow shirt system failed and Brian, the lost child, had an adventure while lost with…
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I Want To Go Camping! (Part 2)
When I Finally Go Camping! Grandpa tells the rest of the story of a time he really wanted to go camping. In Part 2, Grandpa now has enough platelets, and finally goes camping with his brother in Canada; where they meet several mosquitoes, a skunk, and not enough fish. Gorf is worried that Grandpa quits…
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I Want to Go Camping! (Part 1)
Grandpa tells the story of a time he really wanted to go camping. A disastrous turn in his health threatens the trip. Grandpa’s platelets were mysteriously and quite completely gone! Listen to his intense efforts to to get those tiny little cells called platelets back up to normal safe levels. Marshmallow, the raccoon and Gorf,…