Landing Lights

When Mr. Virgo was a teenager, his best friend was Tucker. He has so many funny stories about their exploits.

The guys went together and bought an old Willie's Jeep. They figured they could earn some extra money (or beer) by going down to Sand Key, the local lover's lane, to pull the cars out when they got stuck in the sand. While they were tinkering around on the Jeep, they decided they needed brighter lights to see deeper into the woods. They went out and got several car batteries and two airplane landing lights, hooked them up with a switch, and headed out to make some bucks. The road out to the key was a long, straight stretch of about five miles. They noticed a car quite a ways off coming in their direction that had the high beams on. Mr. Virgo flashed his lights but got no response. They waited till the car got up closer then reached back and flipped the switch on the landing lights. He said they turned the night into day and the car ran off the road into the ditch. Turns out, it was a state trooper! They made a quick dash off into the woods, drove back as far as they could, took the lights and batteries off the Jeep, and hid them under some brush. They took their time getting back out to the road and when they did, there were about five cop cars stopping everyone. When Mr. Virgo got to the roadblock, they asked him what kind of lights he had on his vehicle.

"Jeep lights." said Mr. Virgo. "Why?"

"Well, there was someone out here awhile ago that shined a searchlight or something and ran one of our guys off the road!" the officer said.

"No, officer...we've got regular headlights on this jeep. See?"

"Alright, fine...get out of here!" and the officer waved them on.

It took them two weeks to get up the courage to go back and get their lights and batteries!

Be good to each other!

Ginny