This was the first picnic I’ve been to since Uncle Pete became famous… so\nI had to spend some time explaining who Uncle Pete was. Aunt Marge was sure\nthere were no Pete’s in the family…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uncle Bill did pass along some more\nstories. Including one about Uncle Tom and his buddies. Uncle Tom worked\nat a gas station part time (owned by one of the relatives) and used to hang\nout there with a bunch of his friends. One day they decided to topple\nplanters…. At least in that part of town around Berwyn in Chicago, a lot of\nthe “brownstone” houses had big brick porches, with heavy planters on the ends.. So they\npicked one street, and every 4th house was “yours”.. and they ran up the\nsteps, dumped the planter on the way up, and then down, and dumped the\nplanter on that side of the porch. Then went back to the gas station to\nlisten to the police on the police radio there…. Again our family lucked\nout, and we do not have Uncles in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other story he talked about was what they would do to drivers along\nCermak. Two guys would get a dummy, then wait on the side of the street\nuntil a car came along. Once it started getting close, they would dash\nacross the street with the dummy between them. When they were in front of\nthe car, they would drop the dummy, and continue their dash. Uncle Bill\nthought it was strange that some of the drivers where not happy about the\nchance to test their brakes and their heart all at the same time… ~:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This was the first picnic I’ve been to since Uncle Pete became famous… so I had to spend some time explaining who Uncle Pete was. Aunt Marge was sure there were no Pete’s in the family… Uncle Bill did pass along some more stories. Including one about Uncle Tom and his buddies. Uncle Tom worked … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncle-pete"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}