Grandpa Joy

Kadizzle always knew youngest daughter would go nuts when she had a real walking talking doll of her own.  So here are three adults just sitting watching Sylvie eat pancakes.  Cheech is in heaven with Evie.  Evie can do the most simple thing and everyone is joyful.  Seeing the little lady smile and wave as old granpa comes down the steps is a good start to a day.

Oh yes the clutter.  How soon we forget how every child's toys have a million parts.  Evie just like her mom and every kid loves to just pull things out of the toy box and scatter them.  The birthday brought a truckload of plastic to scatter about.

Tony Sprinkleton the dog is living high as Evie throws pancakes on the floor.

Kadizzle set a new record reading "Murder Never Dies".   A real surprise came when it hit Kadizzle that he had gone to grade school with one of the gang members mentioned in the book.  Kadizzle distinctly remembers a cool morning standing on the steps at Woodsdale School.  Bob Dorn was there. Bob was a big fat kid.  Bob who according to the book spent a great part of his life was in the sixth grade with Kadizzle.  As Dorn was standing there he kept moving his hands in a strange way over his sweat shirt that enclosed his entire fatness.  Puzzled about his strange antics Kadizzle finally said " What is wrong with you?".   Dorn held open the sleeve of his sweat shirt and a hamster crawled out.  Two hamsters were residing in his sweat shirt.  The Dorn family was a strange bunch.  The had a sister Lorreta that wore tight leather pants and it was rumored that when they misbehaved their dad beat them with a bull whip.  Apparently the child raising technique did not bode well.  According to the book Dorn ran a shoplifting ring that operated all over the country stealing high end items. 

Dorn went by the name Skinner in prison.  As Kadizzle read quickly it did not occur to him that he had known a Dorn.  Then on the last page of the chapter was a picture of Dorn.  All of a sudden the mind clicked in and said holy shit that's him. 

The Dorn family lived down by Wheeling Creek across the street from my uncle. Supposedly there had been occasions when the Dorns randomly fired a handgun at my uncles house.

Now the puzzling part of this is that the book says Dorn went to Lindsley.  Lindsley was a military school in Wheeling where all the rich kids went to school.  Kadizzle's memory is Dorn disappeared about sixth grade.  The family seemed to be poor and it made no sense he went to Lindsley.  However, it did seem that someone died and they came into money.   Another prominent crime related friend Kadizzle knew well and grew up with was mentioned in the book.  Ironically that kid and his brother both went to Lindsley.  Their dad was the kingpin for the local gambling machines and they made millions with their illegal activities.

One thing Kadizzle noticed the author did that struck him as dishonest was a little story he told.  The author took a popular humorous tale and dressed it up as the truth then inserted it in his book.  Perhaps the author did not realize he was using an urban legend that has wide circulation.