Speaking of bizarre, Thelma recollects that one morning, during one of the huge breakfasts next to the Popo Agie, someone had accidently set out the cat food box next to the cereal. The box had seen several patrons before anyone noticed that this particular box didn't contain cereal. Looking at it from another perspective, maybe it wasn't an accident. Thelma remembers an instructor in the 70's who used to carry cat food on course professing that it contained all the essential nutrients a body needs. Regardless of any instructor eccentricities, Thelma affirms her admiration for them.
Instructors are special.
I've never envied other people for money or the things they have, but I envy the instructors. I do not know how they take students out, teach them, keep them safe, keep them interested . . . In addition to the multitudes of course responsibilities required of instructors, they also had to handle any extraneous in-town tasks that arose. Early on, instructors did most of the issuing. Nowadays, the instructors do even more.