When Dad and Nancy arrived at breakfast, I heard a little bit about his motorcycle trip to Alaska, but not nearly enough. The stories need time to age, and I prefer hearing a story that has been practiced and has aged. It s not that I think the story will be exaggerated over time. It s just that I would rather have him work out all the details before I hear them. A good story just gets better as time goes on.
Nobody wants to hear a fresh story.
This is called getting the story straight. Dad has always had a motorcycle well, since he was 19 or so. He has a collection of pictures that has become a lifelong project. Up until this summer, he had forty-eight pictures, and he finally got number 49. With breakfast over, we went back to my uncle s house to prepare for the family reunion.