Clarence Coyote and Project Courier - Part 43 - Watching the Planes Takeoff by moyomongoose < Submission

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 14th, 1960

While the family were having breakfast before heading out to church that Sunday morning, a KSWS News report aired on TV where the helicopter news team actually made news. The studio news reporter announced;

"Here's something that doesn't happen everyday. Our own aerial news team made their own news yesterday afternoon in a daring rescue of a raccoon from a tree in northwest Guadalupe County off of Highway 85.
On the way to a news assignment, our helicopter news team noticed Patrick Raccoon stranded up in a rotted tree he was attempting to cut down. The tree appeared to be in danger of falling over with Patrick still up it, and a ladder which was laying on the ground near the tree prompted our pilot and camera fox to lend assistance".

Daring Helicopter Rescue by moyomongoose

"That must have been scary", Marge mentioned.
"Cutting down a tree sure can be risky business if you don't know what you're doing", Al added.
The studio reporter on TV continued;

"From Patrick Raccoon's account of this, he had planned to cut a dead and rotting tree from the top down in pieces. After he had climbed a ladder up into the tree with his chainsaw, the tree began cracking and tilted over, causing his ladder to fall. And it seemed that with each attempt Patrick made to begin climbing down, that caused a danger of the tree falling over. That's when our helicopter news team arrived. They knew it would have too late by the time help from the county could be summonsed, so our pilot hovered over to Patrick Raccoon so he could grab onto one of the helicopter's runners. Patrick was then set safely to the ground".

"Boy, that raccoon sure was lucky", Rex mentioned.
"That's why we've told you cubs, when you climb trees, stay out of the ones that are dead", Marge reminded the cubs.
"When a tree dies, it rots", Al added. "And being up in a dead one can be a quick way to ride it to the ground".
"Or a branch break out from under your foot", Marge further added.
Speaking of aircrafts, Al and Marge had a special treat planned for the cubs which would be during that Sunday afternoon. It was to go out to the Albuquerque Municipal Airport to let the cubs watch the air liners take off and land.
While the family were still having breakfast, Clarence mentioned, "I never knew Albuquerque had two airports".
"There was Oxnard Field", Al replied. "But that closed down more than 10 years ago. I'm surprised a cub your age would ever hear about it 50 some years from now".
"No, not that one. I didn't know there was an Oxnerd Field anyway", Clarence replied.
"Oxnard, not Oxnerd", Marge corrected Clarence.
Clarence then continued, "The other one I'm talking about is Albuquerque International".
"What are you talking about?", Rex asked Clarence.
"There is no international airport in Albuquerque", Jed affirmed.
"To the best of my knowledge, none of the airports in all of New Mexico are international", Marge further affirmed.
"They're not", Al added. "The nearest international airport to here is in El Paso".
"Maybe the airport where we're going to see the planes today wasn't around any longer in my day and time", Clarence surmised.
"Won't be around any longer, Clarence. Not wasn't", Marge again corrected Clarence, then reminded him, "Remember, the day and time you're from is still in the future from this day and time. It hasn't happened yet".
"Oh...I keep forgetting about that", Clarence admitted.
"Wait a second", Al exclaimed as he thought of something, then asked, "Clarence, where exactly will this international airport be you're talking about?"
When Clarence explained where the Albuquerque International Airport would someday be, it was in the same exact location of where the Albuquerque Municipal Airport is presently in 1960, which was in the southeast area of town.
"And there'll also be an Air Force base next to it too", Clarence added.
"It's the same airport", Marge concluded.
"Especially that Clarence mentioned Kirtland Air Force Base being next to it.", Al affirmed, then said to Clarence, "From what you told us, it isthe same airport, which will gain international status some time in the future".
"So it's not yet an international airport", Clarence said.
"Not now anyway", Al replied.
"Gee wiz...Having Clarence around is like having a crystal ball to see into the future", Jed jested as everyone including Clarence laughed.
The cubs certainly were looking forward to watching the airplanes later that day. After all, the only aircraft the cubs ever get to see that flys in their local vicinity is the KSWS News helicopter when ever there is a breaking story nearby. However, before going to see the airplanes, there was church that morning being it was a Sunday.
Although Clarence's biological parents in the 21st Century, Charley and Alice, along with his biological siblings, Jack and Rhonda, would in that future day and time not attend church except for once a year on Easter Sundays, Clarence had become accustomed to attending church every Sunday with his adoptive family in the present year of 1960.
The family usually has breakfast on Sundays as early as they would normally do once school gets back in session again after the summer vacation. After all, the nondenominational church that Al and Marge, with their cubs, attended was in Santa Rosa, which was approximately 50 miles from their home community of Duran. Thus, after the family had breakfast, it was just shy of an hour's ride to church.

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At church that Sunday, Pastor Warren Brown Bear preached a sermon on "Giving Up is Not an Option".
During the sermon, Pastor Bear mention;

"When Moses demanded of the Pharaoh of Egypt to free the Israelites from the bondage of slavery, everyday the Pharaoh refused. Once a series of ten plagues began on Egypt, the Pharaoh even still refused Moses' council. Night after a night were the plagues on Egypt. Each night was a different plague. A plague one night, and on the following night yet another plague. And throughout all the plagues, the Pharaoh continued to resist Moses' importunity to demand the release of the Israelites.
Had Moses been like many of us today, Dearly Beloved, he would have felt like he was getting nowhere and simply quit...But Moses knew that quitting was never an option on the table".

Throughout the church auditorium, "Amen" could be heard from members of the congregation.
Pastor Bear then went on to say;

Then the 10th and final plague was loosed on Egypt...With this plague, the first born son in each family died during the night. Only those households that had lamb's blood applied to the doorjamb of the entry door of the home were spared this last and most terrible plague upon their first born sons...Pharaoh's one and only son died of that plague that night. And come morning, Pharaoh finally conceded to setting the Israelites free".

More amens were heard from among the congregation.
Pastor Bear continued;

"	But what if Moses had given up after the 9th plague failed to convince the Pharaoh to set the Israelites free?...Think about that for a moment, Dearly Beloved...Quitters never succeed in life...Quitting never was in God's plan. It is not today. And it never will be!"

That one got a lot of amens from the congregation, including from a wolverine who called out, "Amen. Preach it, brother. Preach it".
Pastor Bear then made reference to some modern day examples;

It has been said it took Tom Edmonson Beaver 1,000 failed attempts to successfully invent the incandescent light bulb...He did not give up on the 999th try...Yet as a cub, his school teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything, and he was fired from the first two jobs in his young life for lack of productivity.
The Right Brothers were two bicycle shop owners who invented the first airplane. They too encountered many failures along the way...But what if those brothers have given up and declared the idea of a flying machine to be foolishness, saying it can't be done?...Had they did, and no one else picked up the ball to attempt to invent an airplane, we would not have the invention of the airplane today".

At one point during the sermon, Rex and Clarence each made a paper airplane out of their copies of the church bulletin flyers they had.
Al noticed the boys with their paper planes, then discreetly said to Marge who was sitting nearest to Rex and Clarence, "Marge. That needs to be collected from them".
"Clarence. Rex", Merge sternly whispered. "You give me those".
"We were just making airplanes", Rex whispered.
"Those flyers are not to do that with", Marge whispered back as Rex and Clarence surrendered their paper airplanes.
"You boys need to be listening to what the preacher has to say", Al whispered to Rex and Clarence.
During the rest of the church service, Rex and Clarence were then on good behavior like Jed and Donna had been.
Pastor Warren Brown Bear's sermon that Sunday also reminded Al about the perseverance that he and his fellow scientists have dedicated to getting the Project Courier time travel machine repaired so Clarence can get back to his home time in the year 2018. Repair efforts on it have been going on for the past six months...And it was only one time a few months ago they had thought for a while the machine was too badly damaged to be fixed with present day technology.
Once church services were over that Sunday morning, everyone stayed around and socialized for a short while as they usually do every Sunday. Cubs of the other members of the congregation thought it so cool that Al, Marge and their cubs were going to the Albuquerque Municipal Airport to watch the planes land and take off.
While still having conversation at the church, Dale Otter, a member of the congregation, mentioned he and his wife, Linda, had taken their two cubs to watch the planes a month ago.
"The cubs really enjoyed it", Linda Otter said.
"Those airplanes are big, and neat, and cool, and everything", the otter couple's 5 year old son, Sebastian, exclaimed.
"We've seen them one time last year too", Rex replied to 5 year old Sebastian Otter.
The otter couple's 8 year old daughter, Brenda, said, "When I grow up, I want to be an airline stewardess".
"Aww, that's cute", Marge replied.
"Brenda had that dream since we went to see the planes", Linda said.
"Cubs have lots of dreams of what they want to be at that age", Al affirmed.
"Oh, isn't that the truth", Dale Otter replied, followed by Al, Marge, Linda and Dale exchanging stories of their cubhood dreams of what they wanted to be when they were growing up.
One of Dale Otter's cubhood dreams was to be a race car driver, though he now he is an independent truck driver who owns and operates his own rig.
Marge Coyote wanted to be a school teacher, but decided not to peruse it when she married Al.
During Al Coyote's cubhood, he thought he'd like to be a test pilot. However, once Al became an adult, he decided that helping to design new aircraft and designing other things would be more rewarding...Thus that's when Al went to college to take up science, physics and engineering. The Einstein scenario appealed to Al more than the Chuck Yeager scenario did.
Linda Otter's cubhood dream was to go into business as a fishing pier owner/operator on the Pacific coast in California. As she got older, she realized she didn't want to leave her home state of New Mexico. And how much of an investment it takes to build a fishing pier and bait house. Thus when Mama Otter became an adult, she abandoned that dream, married her husband and started a family.
After socializing a short while, and as everyone began to leave, Al and Marge bid Dale and Linda Otter good day.
"See you all next Sunday", Al said to Dale Otter and his wife Linda as they were leaving.
"We'll be here", Dale Otter replied.
"We're gonna see the airplanes now?", Donna cheerfully asked.
"We're having lunch first", Marge replied.
When church lets out, that's usually shortly before noon.
"Club Cafe' Restaurant?", Rex asked.
"Sound good to you, Al?", Marge reiterated.
"I'm up for Club Cafe' ", Al affirmed as Jed, Clarence and Donna agreed.
So Club Cafe' it was. After all, it's right there in Santa Rosa, and their home made meals are really great. Once the family got into the station wagon, it was only a few blocks drive from the church to the Club Cafe'.
After arriving to the restaurant, Al told the cubs, "Watch out for cars when you're walking across the parking lot".
"And no running", Marge added as everyone began getting out of the car.
Though, Rex and Clarence did begin to do a fast walk from the car to the restaurant.
"Rex. Clarence. Slow down", Marge said to them.
"The food will still be there", Al said to Rex and Clarence. "It's not going to disappear on us".
"Well, we...", Clarence began.
"We were seeing who can get there first", Rex continued.
"So I see that", Marge replied.
Once inside the Club Cafe', a waitress, Irene Jerboa, greeted the family, directed them to their table, and brought them glasses of ice water and copies of the menu.
Of course the cubs debated over the menu which selection is the best, as they exchanged suggestions among each other.
"The longer it takes for you all to decide what you want, the more time you're missing watching the airplanes", Marge mentioned to the cubs.
"I think I know what I want", Jed said.
"I'm still lookin' ", Donna added.
"Let's see...I had this chili one time when we were in here before", Clarence mentioned, yet still not decided if that's what he wanted to get.
Rex then mentioned, "I always wanted to try this one. But I guess the price is kinda high ain't it".
"Isn't. Not ain't", Marge corrected Rex.
The selection Rex was looking at cost 3 dollars and 20 cents...That would be like a $32 dish in 21st Century times.
"I know that dish", Al said to Rex. "It's really hot and spicy. That's why we never order it".
Waitress Irene Jerboa then suggested selections from the insert page listing the daily specials.
"And the specials include a beverage and desert", Irene Jerboa mentioned.
The specials were in the range between 1 dollar and 15 cents to 1 dollar and 40 cents...That would be like 11 dollars and 50 cents to 14 dollars in 21st Century times. Still not bad for beverage and desert included.
"You can't beat the specials", Al suggested to Marge.
"I'd say definitely the specials", Marge affirmed.
The cubs also agreed to order from the specials list...After all, what cub would turn down a meal that included desert?
The Club Cafe' also had very good atmosphere, and the A/C felt good on that hot August Sunday. After the waitress brought out the meals and beverages, the family enjoyed a really good home cooked lunch. And after they were done with lunch, there was a wide variety of home made deserts to choose from.
"Wow! Where do we begin?", Donna proclaimed about the selection of deserts.
"This is my most favorite part of coming here", said Rex.
"Ya got Key lime today?, Jed asked.
"We sure do", Irene Jerboa answered.
"Awright!", Jed replied.
Al and Marge decided on coconut custard pie.
Jed ordered Key lime pie.
Rex ordered angel food cake with orange frosting.
Clarence ordered white chocolate cake with different colour sprinkles on it.
And Donna ordered strawberry cake.
Marge asked Clarence, "Are you sure that white chocolate cake is alright for you?"
"It's safe for canines", Irene Jerboa assured the Coyote Family.
"White chocolate doesn't have the theobromine regular chocolate has", Al further assured Marge.
After the waitress left to go get the deserts, Clarence mentioned quietly enough so nearby patrons don't overhear, "In my day and time I'm from, my natural mom and dad would sometimes get white chocolate cake for us to have at the house".
With that said, Marge was assured the white chocolate cake would be okay. At the time, white chocolate had been introduced in Switzerland only 24 years earlier. Thus there were a lot of animals who still weren't aware it was okay for canines.
Those home made pies and cakes were certainly a luscious sight when Irene Jerboa brought them out to the Coyote Family's table. And the deserts were even more luscious tasting. Needless to say, the coyotes really enjoyed their deserts as well as they had enjoyed their meals...The cubs enjoyed desert more so than the meal actually.
After they were done with desert, it was time to leave a tip for Irene Jerboa, pay the bill, and go to watch the planes.
"Yea! We're gonna see the airplanes!", Donna proclaimed.
"I've brought the movie camera along too", Marge informed Al.
Al discreetly asked Marge, "For Clarence to take back to 2018 to show on the projector we got for him?".
"That's the idea", Marge replied. "And I also have the Rolleiflex with us for still photos".
"Good thinking", Al commended Marge.
Clarence was certainly delighted to hear that he'll have movies and photos of today to take back to 2018 with him.
The bill for the family of 6 came to 7 dollars and 23 cents. And the tip for Irene Jerboa was 1 dollar and 40 cents...In 21st Century times, that bill would have been 72 dollars and 30 cents, and a 14 dollar tip for the waitress.
On the way out to the car where no one else could overhear, Clarence mentioned, "I know Boeing 747s must look different now days from what they'll look like in my day and time", then asked, "Will we see any 747s there".
"Seven forty sevens?", Jed asked, which clued Clarence that Boeing may not have made the 747 as of that day and time.
"I've never heard of that plane", Al replied, then assured Clarence, "I'm sure you're talking about a plane that doesn't yet exist".
"Will 747s be as big as a Stratocruiser?", Rex asked with enthusiasm.
"I don't know what a Stratocruiser is", Clarence replied.
"They're Boeing 377s", Al informed Clarence. "We might see one or two today. If we do, then you can tell us if a 747 will be a larger plane or not".
"Stratocruisers are pretty big", Jed, having no idea how big a 747 will be someday, assured Clarence.
Once the family were back into their 1960 Plymouth Fury 9 passenger station wagon, they proceeded through Santa Rosa to Route 66. Upon arriving to Route 66 they turned west, and it was off to the Albuquerque Municipal Airport to see the airliners land and takeoff.
The part of Route 66 going through Santa Rosa had not yet been transformed into the new Interstate 40 at that time. And after going over the Southern Pacific Railroad crossing, it was still Route 66 for several more miles before going on past the Hop, and even several more miles further. But then, much to everyone's surprise, about 25 miles before Cline's Corners, the new section of Interstate 40 was complete and open to traffic.
"Hey look. That newest section of the interstate is now open", Al mentioned just before the old Route 66 fed into the newly completed I-40.
"It sure looks different", Marge said as she drove toward where Route 66 turned into I-40.
"This is more the way I remember it from my day and time", Clarence proclaimed.
"You've gotten the opportunity to actually see the change in the highway take place", Marge said to Clarence as they were now riding along I-40.
"Will all of Route 66 be like this?", Donna asked.
"It will", Clarence affirmed. "In my day and time, this highway will be interstate 40 all the way".
That stretch of Route 66 from just west of The Hop was now completed. By the time they were proceeding along the newly completed stretch of I-40, Clarence had been noticing the exits were numbered differently from what he remembers.
Clarence noticed Exit 29, then later, Exit 28 for Route 3, and thought, "This can't be right".
Then, after they had traveled 25 miles down I-40, they were approaching the exit for Cline's Corners. Though Clarence had never before given attention to how the five exits were numbered on the Moriarty/Albuquerque stretch of I-40, he definitly took notice of the sign for the Cline's Corners exit reading as Exit 27.
"I remember this exit being Exit 218 in my day and time", Clarence mentioned.
"New Mexico will be that built up by then?", Marge asked in surprise.
"No. New Mexico in the 21st Century won't be much more built up than it is now", Clarence answered Marge.
"Well, how will there be more than 218 exits on Interstate 40?", Jed asked.
"And this is only half way through the state", Al added.
"Because it's 218 miles from the Arizona state line...Right?", Clarence answered Jed and Al.
"Ohhh, okay", Al said as he realized something, then asked Clarence, "Will exits be numbered by mileposts in your day and time?"
"I thought they always were", Clarence replied.
"Oh no, they're not", Marge assured Clarence.
"In this day and time, exits have always been numbered, Exit 1, Exit 2, Exit 3 and so on", Al explained to Clarence as they had already rode under the overpass of what was then Exit 27.
"Oh I didn't know exits were ever numbered like that", Clarence said, then thought a few seconds, then asked, "So... What about if exits get added later between two other exits already there?"
"Then any new exits would get a letter designated after the number...Oh say like, Exit 27B, Exit 27C and so on", Al further explained.
"Numbering exits by mileposts does seem like a better idea", Marge mentioned she drove along.
"Actually it would be", Al agreed. "And from what we just heard from Clarence, it someday will".
Rex then asked Clarence, "So when will they start numbering exits by mileposts anyway?"
"Oh, I don't know", Clarence said to Rex, "It's already that way before I'm born".
"Clarence just said a moment ago he never knew that exits were numbered this way", Al remined Rex.
Not long thereafter, the Coyote Family arrived to where I-40 turns back into Route 66 just east of Moriarty. A big sign can be seen ahead prior to where the new interstate feeds back onto the old route, which read in big letters, "WARNING. INTERSTATE 40 ENDS. RESUME ROUTE 66".
"I've got plenty of movie film with us", Marge said to Al. "How about getting a film of this for Clarence to take back with him".
"Sure thing", Al agreed as he retrieved the Revere 8mm movie camera from the glove compartment.
Before they passed the sign warning of the end of I-40, Al wound up the drive spring of the movie camera and began filming.
"Back on Route 66", Rex commented as Al was getting movie footage while Marge drove.
"And just think. It will be Interstate 40 all the way through eventually", Jed replied as they rode onto the old stretch of Route 66.
"The way I always remembered it", Clarence added as Al finished filming.
"I got it", said Al.
"Awright", Clarence proclaimed.
"That will make a good part of the archive for Clarence to take back with him to his day and time", Marge added.
"We should drop this film off for developing as soon as we can", Al advised Marge. "We have been making good progress on our way to getting the time machine up and running".
"How soon do you think that might be?", Marge asked Al.
"I don't know. Could be any day now", Al replied as Clarence felt a rush of excitement.
"We'll miss Clarence", Donna said.
"We all will", Marge assured Donna. "But Clarence's rightful place in time is in the future".
They were soon riding through the town of Moriarty on Route 66, which was the hometown of the delinquent pitbull teenage brothers, Biff and Richie...as well as the hometown of delinquent pitbull teenager Gaston.
"Biff and gang's stomping grounds", said Rex.
"Yea. Those creeposaurases", Donna added.
"Maybe we could get some movie footage of riding through Moriarty", Marge suggested not long before they approached the intersection of Route 66 and Route 41.
"Depends on how much will change here by 2018", Al replied.
"Oh, a lot. I know this is where I-40 will be in my day and time", Clarence said, then pointing northward continued, "But the interstate will swing over that way a little bit before getting to the light for Route 41".
With that said, Al got the 8mm movie camera and began filming footage of Route 66.
"So where the light is. Will that stay as Route 66 in your day and time?", Rex asked Clarence.
"It will. But it too is gonna be way different", Clarence answered Rex, as Al paused filming to wind the movie camera back up.
"How much different will it be at the traffic light?", Al asked as he resumed filming Route 66.
"Well...The interstate won't run exactly there", Clarence explained. "But the traffic light won't be there anymore. Instead, the old Route 66 will go under Route 41 at an overpass, like the same way I-40 will do. And that part of Route 66 will be a four lane street with a medium strip.
"Sure sounds like it will be different from what we know now", said Jed.
"This is way different from what I've known", Clarence replied, referring to Route 66 still being a two lane highway, with a light at Route 41, and without I-40 being present.
"Considering the changes Clarence is talking about, we want to be sure to film this intersection", Marge suggested to Al as they approached the Route 41 light, which was red for Route 66 at the moment.
"I'm already thinking the same thing", Al agreed as he filmed the approach to the intersection.
They were getting to the light just as it was turning back green again, thus they were able to continue on through as Al continued filming.
"Good thing the light turned green when it did", Al said as he stopped filming.
"Why is that?", Marge asked.
"We got past the light just before the camera needed winding up again", Al answered as he began winding the camera back up.
"Oh, we got lucky", Marge replied.
Then after leaving Moriarty, the Coyote Family arrived to where Route 66 becomes the stretch of Interstate 40 that was completed a few months ago on to Albuquerque. They were then cruising down more of I-40. And along the way, it did dawn on Clarence that the five exits on that stretch of I-40 were exits; 21, 20, 19, 18 and 17...Something Clarence had never paid  attention to during those times when the family would go to Ted Badger's hobby shop in Albuquerque to race slot cars.
  Prior to the 21st Century, those exits would someday be exits; 187, 181, 178, 175 and 170.
Shortly after passing what was then Exit 17 as they arrived to Albuquerque, there was another big sign ahead warning that I-40 again ends, and instructed traffic to detour onto Route 66. Tri-Star Plaza was also right in the line of sight of where I-40 presently ends, which gave the optical illusion as though the plaza was sitting on I-40 until you drove closer to where you got off onto Route 66. The future Exit 16, later to be Exit 167, would be right where the Tri-Star Plaza presently is.
"There's Tri-star Plaza right in the cross hairs", Jed mentioned as Marge began to slow the car down to continue on Route 66 where it becomes Central Avenue going through town.
"Yup. When they continue building the interstate, Tri-Star Plaza goes under the blade", Al said as he was sure to get movie footage of the three year old contemporary style shopping plaza with it's nostalgically gaudy, huge, parking lot sign.
"I thought we had footage of the plaza", Marge said to Al as they rode onto Route 66.
"We have movies of the cubs racing slot cars at the hobby shop", Al replied. "But I don't think we have any movies of the plaza itself".
"Just some photos the cubs and I took of it a while back", Marge said to Al, "But I think you're right, Al. Now that you mentioned it, we never had any movies of the plaza".
"We do now", Donna proclaimed.
A few blocks down was Louisiana Boulevard.
"Left here on Louisiana should take us directly to Gibson on the way to the airport", Al mentioned to Marge.
"I see it", Marge said as she turned left to head south on Louisiana toward the airport.
While coming south on Louisiana Rex proclaimed, "There's one taking off...DC-4...I think".
"Could be a DC-6", Jed added.
"It's a little too far away to tell for sure, DC-4s and DC-6s look very similar", Al said.
Clarence, noticing the plane was a prop driven airliner, mentioned, "You know, in my day and time, there'll be jet airplanes that will have motors like rocket motors".
"They already exist", Al informed Clarence as the other cubs chuckled.
Clarence then retorted, "Yea...But...What few planes I've seen the whole time I've been here in 1960, they all have propellers and gasoline motors".
"This part of the country still doesn't have much in the way of jetliner service", Al replied to Clarence as the Coyote Family crossed Zuni Road, continuing south down Louisiana Boulevard. "But there are jetliners out there".
"We still have only prop driven planes in these parts", Marge affirmed.
"Except for the F-104s at the air base", Al added.
"Oh, the fighter jets at Kirtland", Marge acknowledged.
"You know what", Clarence mentioned. "All this time, I was thinking airplanes with jet motors weren't invented yet in 1960".
"We actually saw jetliner passenger planes when we took a trip to Dallas one time", Rex said to Clarence. "And that was when I was five years old".
"That was three years ago", Al added.
Six years ago back in 1954, Al had been involved in a project designing and testing components for a jet airplane engine during his apprenticeship getting his master's degree in engineering. However, Al wasn't able to make mention of that project due to it still being classified information.
"Dad, didn't the Germans start working on building jet fighters in world War Two?", Jed asked Al.
"They actually had some of them in aerial combat at the end of the war", Al assured Jed.
"Wow! Jets!? That far long ago?!", Clarence asked in surprise.
"Those German engineers knew how to think outside the box", Al said to Clarence.
After traveling several blocks down Louisiana Boulevard, Marge made a right turn onto Gibson Boulevard to go west.
"I'm going to change out the film in the movie camera", Al mentioned as he ran the remainder of the film to the end to prepare to change it.
"Good Idea so we don't run out while filming", Marge replied.
"I noticed the footage indicator showed there wasn't much film left on this roll", Al affirmed as the film made it to the end.
Back in the day, each roll of 8mm movie home film only had about two and a half to three minutes running time on it...Longer home movies were achieved by splicing shorter movie segments end to end once they were developed.
Despite being a few blocks from the airport, glimpses of the east end of the east/west runway could be seen from Gibson Boulevard near where they turned off of Louisiana.
"There's a Constellation!", Jed proclaimed as he barely got a glimpse of it past some buildings.
"The kind with three tails!", Rex added. "Those are cool!".
"A plane with three tails?!", Clarence exclaimed. "That ought be neat to see!".
"It's a Lockheed Constellation alright", Al affirmed as he too got a glimpse of it. "It's just about at the east end of the runway to get ready to take off".
"Hurry! We don't wanna miss it!", Donna exclaimed.
"And how!", Rex added.
"I hope we get to our watching spot in time", Jed said, referring to where they had watched planes a year ago.
"It will be a minute or two before it takes off", Al assured the cubs while taking the used spool of film out of the movie camera to put into a protective tin canister.
"That's a plane I'd like to see!", Clarence exclaimed.
"We're getting there now", Marge further assured the cubs.
"I remember from last year, we'll be turning left on Yale", Marge said to Al. "But I don't recall what's the next street".
"After we get on Yale, we catch Randolph Road over to University Boulevard", Al replied to Marge.
"Oh yea. Randolph", Marge acknowledged.
Clarence was able to catch a few glimpses of the planes that were parked at the airport, then remarked, "It sure looks different to me not seeing any jetliners out there".
"It would also look different even now days to anyone who was not from this part of the country", Jed assured Clarence.
"You cubs need to be quiet for a moment", Al said, "I need to give your mother directions so we don't miss the Constellation take off".
Al then set the movie camera on the front seat between him and Donna long enough to give Marge directions.
It was several blocks before they got to Yale Boulevard.
"There's Yale", Marge said as she made the left turn to go south.
"The airport building is just up ahead", Al replied.
"I see it", Marge said as they approached the airport building.
Donna began saying under her breath, "Hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry".
That Lockheed Constellation could take off any time now.
Upon arriving to the adobe style airport building, then it was right onto George Road.
Then it was left onto a service road that would someday become University Blvd.
As they began heading down service road, Al mentioned, "The wind is blowing out of the west today, so the planes are taking off at this end of the runway".
"That means well get a close up view of the planes taking off rather than them landing", Jed added.
"That's right", Al acknowledged to Jed. "The planes will be landing at the far end of the runway today".
Moments later, Marge was parking their Plymouth Fury station wagon off onto the shoulder of the service road in line with the east/west runway of the airport, where they had watched planes before. The adobe style airport building they had past moments ago could be seen off in a distance to the left.

Arrival Near the Airport by moyomongoose

"I just about got the movie camera ready", Al said.
Al had just then finished tucking the end of the new roll of film on the take-up spool, then closed the camera and gave it a wind up. And not a moment too soon.
"I hear it revving up!", Jed exclaimed.
The Lockheed at the far end of the runway they were lined up with was beginning it's run to take off. Everyone promptly began to get out of the station wagon.
"You cubs on the back seat get out on the right side", Al said to Jed, Rex and Clarence so they don't risk opening a door in front of an approaching car.

Exiting the Car to watch the Plane Takeoff by moyomongoose

Exiting the Car to watch the Plane Takeoff - Zoom In by moyomongoose

Marge got out on the driver's side with the Rolleiflex camera. And when Al got out on the passenger's side with the Revere 8mm, he instructed Donna, "Here. Get out on this side".
"Here he comes!", Rex exclaimed as the Constellation raced faster and faster up the runway.
As the cubs cheered, Al began getting movie footage of the plane with the Revere 8mm just before it lifted off the runway and became airborne.

Al Coyote Using Revere 8mm Movie Camera by moyomongoose

Marge also got photos of the approaching the Lockheed Constellation with the Rolleiflex 35mm camera. Marge then got some more photos of the plane flying directly overhead.

Marge Coyote Using a Rolleiflex 35mm Camera by moyomongoose

Lockheed Constellation Taking Off [Page 3] by moyomongoose

Lockheed Constellation Taking Off [Page 7] by moyomongoose

The cubs certainly got a thrill out of that plane flying over...as well as a thrill watching flying away.

Lockheed Constellation Taking Off [Page 4] by moyomongoose

Lockheed Constellation Taking Off [Page 8] by moyomongoose

"Wow! That was cool!", Rex proclaimed as the plane continue flying away.
"It sure was!", Clarence added.
"I got some good film coverage on that one", Al proclaimed.
"Oh that's good. I know Clarence will like to take that back with him", Marge affirmed to Al.
"I know my friends in my day and time I'm from will like it too", said Clarence. "We never see planes like that in my day and time".
"There it goes. It's on it's way", Jed said once the plane was further away.
"Bye Bye", Donna said as she waved to the plane.
"They can't here you that far away", Rex said to Donna.
"I know, Silly", Donna replied to Rex.
"At least I'm not saying bye to planes miles away", Jed replied back.
"Okay you two. No arguing", Al told Donna and Rex.
"But he started it", Donna retorted.
"It takes two to tango", Marge told Donna. "Lets have no more fussing".
"I was looking at that fence", Clarence mentioned. "Did the airport run short on money when they put that fence up?"
"What do you mean?", Al asked Clarence.
"It's only as high as your chest or neck", Clarence replied of the four foot high airport parameter fence.
"It's plenty high enough to prevent cubs, the public and non-anthro animals from wandering onto a runway and getting hit by a plane", Al assured Clarence.
"But what about bad animals?", Clarence asked.
"What about them?", Al replied to Clarence.
"Anyone who wants to blow up an airplane can climb that fence easy", Clarence answered.
"What?!", Marge replied in disbelief.
"Who would want to blow up an airplane?", Al asked Clarence.
"Yea. This isn't the middle east or Cuba or something", Jed mentioned.
"Well...It's just, in my day and time, fences around airports are almost as high as a house", Clarence explained. "That so no one can get to a plane to blow it up".
"Wow...Clarence...Is the day and time you're from really that bad?", Al asked.
"Uh...Yea...I guess so", Clarence replied.
"Hey! Another plane getting ready to take off!", Rex said as a DC-3 had just taxied to the far end of the runway.
"It'll be taking off anytime", Al said as he got the movie camera ready.
"I notice that plane sits on it's tail when it's on the ground", Clarence mentioned of the DC-3.
"Some planes do", Al replied.
"I hear it starting to go", Marge said as the DC-3 began it's take off run down the runway.
"Here it comes", Al said as he began filming.
As the plane sped up faster, the tail end raised up to where the plane was level.
As the plane gained more speed, Donna asked something about the plane trying to fly.
The plane gained even more speed, then the tail went back down a bit giving the plane more lift for take off. Then the plane was airborne. The plane approached faster and faster as it climed higher. The plane then pulled in it's landing gears just before it zoomed overhead, and as Marge got a of photo of it.

Coyote Family Watches DC-3 Takeoff - Slideshow Still Shots by moyomongoose

"Yeah!", Rex cheered just as the DC-3 began flying over.
"It's a DC-3", Jed proclaimed.
As Marge got another photo, Al mentioned, "It's been said they're the world's safest planes".
As the DC-3 was flying away, Al added. "If the engines were to quit, it could just about glide like a glider to a place to land".
"Those were around when your dad and I were cubs", Marge said to the cubs.
In not much more than 5 minutes, the plane was out of sight.
"There's a plane landing on the other runway", Jed said as a DC-4 (or possibly a DC-5 or DC-6) was landing on the far end of the runway.
As Al was filming the landing plane, Marge asked, "Al, do you think it will show up well that far away?"
"We'll find out after we get it developed", Al replied.
There was a brief wait time after the DC 3 took off, though the Coyote Family did notice a few planes landing at the far end of the runway.  However, the Coyote Family didn't have to wait very long for more planes to take off. Over the next 35 minutes, they watched another DC 3 take off over head, later followed by a private plane which was a Cessna 172. They also saw four more planes land at the other end of the runway.
Then, a DC-4 at the far end of the runway was preparing to take off. The cubs cheered with anticipation, and Al got the movie camera ready, and Marge grabbed the Rolleiflex camera.
After 45 seconds of waiting, the four engines of the DC-4 finally revved up.
"Here he comes", Jed said as the DC-4 began it's run down the runway.
That particular plane seemed to take a little longer to lift off the runway and become airborne than the previous planes did.
"Doesn't seem to be taking off to well", Marge mentioned as the plane was still gaining speed down the runway.
"Better duck when it goes over", Al said.
Then it appeared there might be risk of the plane not getting airborne in time.
"We better get back away from here", Al said, fearing the plane might overshoot the run way.
"What about our new station wagon?", Rex asked.
"Those airlines have good insurance", Al said to Rex.
The DC 4 finally made it up off the runway in time
"It's up off the ground now", Jed announced.
The plane was finally becoming airborne, but taking off low.
And sure enough, the DC-4 zoomed overhead very low as it passed by. It was low enough you could have thrown a baseball up at it and hit it... Al did get film footage of it flying over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOzcKctCviA

"Wow! I felt the wind off that one!", Jed exclaimed.
"Speak about low bridge, duck your head!", Clarence said.
As the plane was flying away and pulling up it's landing gears, Al remarked, "What was that plane carrying?...Lead?".
"You'd think", Marge replied.
"I bet the drivers over on Interstate 25 were wondering what was going on", Jed remarked.
"No doubt. I bet they were", Al replied.
I-25 going through Albuquerque was a short distance beyond the end of the runway and just past the service road were the Coyote Family's station wagon was parked.
"Yea. I bet that plane was low enough over the interstate to mow the grass", Rex added.
One thing Clarence saw from a distance, and took notice of, there were no enclosed boarding walkways at the airport terminal.
"Dad", Clarence addressed Al.
"What is it, Son", Al replied.
"Over where they get on and off the planes. How come they're using a truck with a stairway on it?", Clarence asked, referring to a truck with hydraulically a raised aircraft boarding staircase.
"Well, that's a silly question", Al chuckled. "How else can anyone get up to a plane?"
"The passengers can't fly up to the plane like Mighty Mouse can", Donna added as Jed and Rex laughed.
"I know that", Clarence replied, then explained, "In the time I came from, anyone getting on and off a plane always walked through a tunnel like thing that's connected to the building, then the other end reaches out to the doorway of the plane".
"I've never seen anything like that", Rex exclaimed.
"I know what Clarence is talking about", Al said to Rex. "It's called an aero-gangplank. O'Hare Airport in Chicago has had them for two years now".
"I've never heard of them myself", Marge admitted.
"O'Hare is the only place that has them", Al replied. "The only place in the U.S. I know of that has them anyway".
"So what are they like?", Jed asked.
"Yea. How do they work?", Rex also asked.
"Yea", Donna added.
"It's like what Clarence says it is", Al answered. "It telescopes out to the plane".
"You don't have to go outside to get on a plane", Clarence said as he further explained what they are like.
"So I take it they won't still use mobile staircase trucks anymore in your day and time", Jed asked Clarence.
"That's right. They won't", said Clarence. "They also won't want anyone near the outside of the plane".
"That security issue thing again, I take it", Al surmised.
"Yea, I guess so", Clarence replied.
Clarence never did mention the X-ray checkpoints that passengers would someday have to pass through before boarding a plane. That was because Clarence had always thought that X-ray checkpoints have been in airports ever since airlines came into existence. Thus it never dawned on Clarence that those were not yet around in 1960. Otherwise, he would have told the family about them.
"Hey look! I think that's a Stratocruiser!", Rex proclaimed as a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser taxied it's way to the east end of the runway.
"It sure is!", Rex added.
"Will that forty seven O seven airplane be bigger?", Donna asked Clarence.
"Well, Clarence", Al said. "Here's your chance to tell us if that Boeing 747 you talked about is going to be bigger".
"I think it still will be", said Clarence. "I'll know for sure when it flies over".
"The Stratocrusier is a pretty big plane", Marge said as she got the Rollioflex camera back out of the Plymouth station wagon.
"And those are double decker", Jed added,
"The 747 will be too", Clarence replied.
"It's almost at the runway", Al said as he got the 8mm movie camera ready.
With in a few minutes, the Stratocruiser was at the end of the runway and waiting for the okay from the control tower to take off.
"It's taking off now", Al said as the Stratocruiser revved up it's engines and began it's run down the runway to take off.
"Here it comes", Rex proclaimed.
"The big wow whopper plane", Donna proclaimed as the Stratocruiser gained speed on it's way closer.
Al got the movie camera running, and Marge was ready with the Rollioflex camera as the plane lifted off the runway and became airborne.
Within moments, the enormous Stratocruiser zoomed overhead.
https://youtu.be/4ByPaNkynpw?t=341

As the plane was flying away, Al asked, "Well, Clarence. Will the 747 be a bigger plane?"
"The Statocruiser is a big plane", Clarence admitted, then affirmed, "But the 747 will be a bigger plane".
"Really?! Bigger?", Al replied with surprise.
"Yea. And wider too", Clarence further affirmed.
"It sounds like that Boeing 747 is going to be a really big plane", Marge mentioned.
"In my day and time, I've been told it's the world's biggest plane when it's built", Clarence said.
"From what you're telling us, that wouldn't surprise me", Al replied to Clarence, then asked, "When will this Boeing 747 be built anyway?"
"Oh, I don't know", Clarence answered. "They'll already have been around a long time before I'll be born".
"Not all that many years into the future then", Marge commented to Al.
Then, on different runway that ran diagonally from northeast to southwest, a military plane began taking off toward the southwest end of the runway.
"Over there. There goes a C-123", Al mentioned upon noticing the plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIcnJ6VVQH8

"Those are cool planes too", Rex said.
"Dad, can you get some movie of it?", Clarence asked as Marge promptly got a photo of of the C-123, which was at a distance.
"I'll try", Al assured Clarence. "But this movie camera doesn't have zoom".
The Rollieoflex camera did have zoom, thus Marge was able to get a good photo of the C-123 taking off despite how far away it was.
"That looks like an air force plane", Clarence noted.
"It is", Al replied.
"At an airport?", Clarence asked.
"Kirtland Air Force base is out beyond the airport", Marge said to Clarence.
The air base and the airport share the same runways", Al added.
"Oh wow. That's unusual", Clarence replied.
Actually, in the 21st Century, the airport and the air base would still be sharing the same runways. It's just that even when Clarence was still in the year 2018, he has always presumed that Kirtland Air Force Base had it's own runways.
During the next 40 minutes, airliners were taking off less often than they had been. And airliners landing on the east end of the runway were arriving less frequently as well. However, there had been some Air Force planes taking off from the diagonal runway, including another C-123, as well as a few planes that landed on the northeast end of that runway.
"Do you cubs want to go over and watch some Air Force take off?", Al asked.
"Awright! You bet!", Rex exclaimed as the other cubs cheered.
"Oh yea!", Donna added.
Jed and Clarence also agreed.
"Sounds unanimous", Marge said to Al.
So it was agreed to ride down the road a short way to the southwest end of the other runway as everyone got into the Plymouth station wagon.
The service road made a fairly sharp turn where it passed in line with where the end of the runway is...And is nearest to I-25 at that point.
"It might be a good idea to pull off here instead of where that sharp turn is", Al said to Marge.
"It would be safer", Marge agreed as she parked the station wagon off of the road well before getting to where it curves around the end of the runway.
At the location where they parked, they were off to the side of the end of the runway, instead of being directly under the flight path like where they had just left.
"This is where we're gonna watch the Air Force planes take off?", Rex asked.
"Yes it is", Marge answered, then told the cubs, "Watch for cars coming before you open the door".
"At least from here, we'll get a good side view of the planes", Al mentioned.
"That would be cool", Jed replied.
During a span of 10 minutes the family waited for another air force plane to take off, they saw a civilian DC-3 airliner come in for a landing on the far end of the runway they had just left.
Jed then noticed an air force plane that had finished taxiing it's way to the far end of the runway they were now at.
"Flying Boxcar", Jed proclaimed.
"Chasing a flying elephant too", Clarence jested, thinking Jed was joking around.
"No. That's an actual airplane", Jed replied to Clarence.
"It's a C-119 alright. A Flying Boxcar", Al added.
"Oh, I thought Jed was joking about box cars flying", Clarence mentioned as Jed, Rex and Donna laughed.
Clarence even laughed at the notion that he had thought Jed was just being funny.
The C-119 cargo plane was a top wing air craft of an unusual design in that the fuselage did not extend all the way back with a tail and rear wings. Instead, the plane also had two smaller fuselages extending back from behind the two engines onto which two tails were attached, and the rear wing spanning between the base of the tails.
"It's was a weird looking plane", Rex informed Clarence.
"You'll see when it flies by", Jed said to Clarence.
"Let's get the cameras ready", Al said as the plane revved up it's engines.
The C-119 began making it's run down the runway to take off as Al got the movie camera ready, and Marge got the Rolleiflex photo camera ready.
"Here they come", Al said as the C-119 lifted off the runway.
Within a moment, the C-119, with its rear doors open, zoomed by on it's way up into the wild blue yonder.
https://youtu.be/j4TH1ggTdrk?t=114

"That is a weird looking plane", Clarence exclaimed.
"Like I told ya". Rex confirmed.
"I noticed the doors in the back are open where you can see through out to the other side", said Clarence.
"Well, it is the month of August", Marge said to Clarence.
"It can get pretty hot in those cargo planes", Al added.
"But wouldn't stuff fall out?", Clarence asked.
"Things are strapped down in cargo planes before they take off", Al assured Clarence.
"That is an odd ball plane", Donna exclaimed.
"Yea. I wonder why that plane is made strange that way", Clarence pondered.
"That design puts the main fuselage closer to the ground for easy loading and unloading", Al answered Clarence.
Everyone watched the C-119 until it went out of sight. Then it was a matter of be patient and wait for another plane to take off. To help pass the time until another plane was to take off, Marge turned the ignition switch of the Plymouth station wagon to accessories to let the radio play. That way everyone can listen to music while waiting for another plane to take off. The following songs played on the car radio with the sounds of Interstate 25 traffic nearby;
Hayden, Willie - Cool Cat - 1957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPDv0AuuCoA

"Come onnnn, airplanes", Donna exclaimed as the family was waiting for the next plane to take off.
"They'll be more coming by", Marge assured Donna.

The next song on the car radio was;
1954 Tommy Ridgley - Jam Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kA-zGXU9o4

After the song, there was a brief radio station call sign break, in which there was also a car commercial.
Studebaker Lark Radio Ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F0zhiFQOj8

And there was a bread commercial.
Bunny Bread in the Oven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g2194EKm6Q

And a Bosco commercial.
Bosco Chocolate Syrup Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-aCP3SVu-Q

Following the station break when the next song began to play, Jed remarked, "There's Lisa Opossum's song".
"Lisa is sort of a Calamity Jane", Rex added with a chuckle.
"You boys let Lisa here you saying those things, she's liable to whip your butts", Al jested to Jed and Rex.
1959 HITS ARCHIVE: Tomboy - Perry Como
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIiaPlzlkBI

Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26P52k82k60

After waiting nearly 20 minutes, the DC-3 airliner that had landed a while earlier took off on the runway they had left.
"I wish another plane would come along on this runway", Donna said.
Marge suggested going back to the other runway, but the cubs still wanted to wait at the runway they were presently at.
"We could go back to the other runway", Marge suggested.
"For all we know, if we do, the next plane could take off at this one", Al mentioned.
So it was agreed by everyone to stay where they were at.
And sure enough, the next plane was taxiing it's way to the far end of the runway the family decided to stay at.
"Oh, wow! Hey, Dad, is that a Globemaster?!" Jed asked.
"Hey neato!", Rex exclaimed.
"That's what it is", Al replied. "It's a C-124 Globemaster".
"That looks just about as big as that Stratocruiser we saw", Clarence added.
"It's actually a little bigger", Al said to Clarence.
"Wow. I better change the film in this camera. That plane will be positioned for take off anytime now", Marge said as the huge, air force, heavy lift, cargo plane arrived to the runway.
As Marge put a fresh roll of film in the Rolleiflex camera, Al mentioned, "I still have some footage left to go on film in the movie camera".
Marge got the new film in the camera and advanced it to begin taking pictures just in time.
"Here they come!", Al said as the C-124 revved up it's engines and began it's run down the runway.
"Wow! That plane is big!", Clarence exclaimed as the C-124 got close enough to appreciate it's true size.
The enormous C-124 Globemaster approached faster and faster as it's engines roared louder, then lifted off the runway. Within a moment, it zoomed by fast and loud on it's way to it's destination.
https://youtu.be/2K44L3KmoBU?t=418

"Wow! Looka that!", Rex proclaimed.
"That plane's a whopper!", Donna exclaimed as the plane was flying away.
"They're designed to carry up to 37 tons", Al mentioned.
"That's a lot of weight", Marge replied. "It's hard to picture how a plane with that much load can get off the ground".
"They do", Al added.
"With that much weight, that plane can carry a semi almost fully loaded", Jed added.
"Or probably 10 automobiles", Rex added.
"It could carry more like the weight nearly 20 automobiles", Al said. "Not that there'd be enough room in the plane for that many".
After Al, Marge and the cubs watched the Globemaster eventually go out of sight, what appeared to be a DC-6 came in for a landing to far end of the other runway which was the east/west runway. The four engine airliner could have been a DC-4 or a DC-7, though it was too far away to tell which.
As the plane slowed after touching down, an F-104 was taxiing it's way to the far end of the northeast/southwest runway the family was watching planes at from the southwest end.
"There's your proof that jet planes have been invented before 1960", Al said to Clarence as he pointed out the F-104 fighter jet.
"Wow! That is a jet", Clarence replied.
In a few moments, the F-104 arrived to the far end of the runway and was awaiting the all clear from the control tower to take off.
"Let's be sure to get the cameras", Marge said to Al. "We don't want to miss this one".
"I'm with you on that one", Al replied as he and Marge got the cameras ready.
It was about that time the F-104 had gotten the okay to take off, then began speeding down the runway.
"Wow! Look at it move!", Jed exclaimed as the jet fighter sped up faster anb faster.
"Here he comes", Al said as the F-104 lifted off of the runway.
In almost no time the F-104 fighter jet sped by as the family watched it with Al getting a good movie footage of it, and Marge quickly getting three photos if it, being an approach shot, a fly by shot and a flying away shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsVNeapPc2o

"That's real fast", Donna proclaimed.
"I notice the wings go straight out", Clarence said, then further explained, "In the day and time I'm from, wings on fighter jets slope back...Like the way wings are on a paper airplane".
"There are some like that in this day and time too", Al said to Clarence.
"Wow. For real?", Clarence exclaimed.
"We've seen that kind before", Rex interjected.
"Those kind of wings are called swept wings", Al explained to Clarence, then mentioned "F-86 fighter jets have swept wings. So do the F-8 Crusaders, and the F-105s. And there are more besides those".
"Will we see any of those?", Clarence asked.
"Not out here at Kirtland Air Force", Al replied. "I haven't seen any swept wing fighters here in the past few years".
"Ya know?...I bet they look like the fighter jets I've seen in the 21st Century", Clarence presumed, being he had never before actually seen an F-86, an F-8, or an F-105.
"Well...I or anyone else would have no way of knowing that", Al replied to Clarence. "It'll be 30 to 40 years yet before 21st Century planes even exist for a comparison".
"Dad, this may be a shot in the dark. But could there maybe be some concept drawings of them at the lab?", Jed asked out of curiosity.
"No there wouldn't be, Son. It'll be decades before anyone even thinks of the first engineer sketches for them", Al answered Jed, then mentioned, "And even if drawings of future planes did exist, it would be classified information I couldn't share anyway".
Rex then suggested, "Dad. How 'bout if there are any pictures at the lab of F-86s and planes that already exist? Couldn't you bring thosehome to show to Clarence?"
"Yea, that would work", Clarence agreed. "Then I'd know what they look like".
"That sounds like a good idea", Donna added. "Yea".
"That won't work", Al retorted to the cubs. "Removing photos or documents from that lab would look mighty suspicious".
"Oh you're not kidding!", Marge agreed with Al, then reprimanded to the cubs, "You cubs know better that where your dad works is a high security installation".
"We'll soon be registering the cubs to start the next school year", Al said to Marge, then suggested, "When we're in Estancia sometime during the week, we can stop in at the library. They'd have books there with pictures of those planes I mentioned for Clarence to look at".
"Then I could tell if those planes look like planes in my day and time or not", Clarence agreed.
"Rex. Clarence. I don't know what you must have been thinking by making that suggestion a moment ago", Marge said to Rex and Clarence.
"Uh, Mom. I guess I wasn't thinking", Rex agreed.
Everyone agreed the library game plan would certainly be a more wiser move than taking the risk of being caught removing pictures from the Horizon Innovations Laboratory complex.
"It's too bad we don't have that internet deal you told us about", Jed said to Clarence. "According to how you said it works, you would have been able to look those planes up on your laptop you brought with you to 1960".
"I know. That would have been so cool", Clarence replied, then explained, "There have been times since I came to this day and time I had thought about all the really cool stuff I could have looked up on my laptop if internet already existed now days".
"You could have even brought your laptop out here with us today if there was already such a thing as that internet", Rex added.
Clarence then explained to Rex, "Even if you all did have an internet now days, you'd have to be at a wi-fi location, or at some other place with internet service to get a signal. It doesn't work like a mobile telephone does where you can get a signal anywhere you're at".
Jed then acknowledged, "So I take it that when internet becomes a reality one day, signal reception won't reach out to a place like where we're at right now".
"That's right. It won't", Clarence replied, then explained, "You would have to go to one of those buildings to get a signal. And that's provided they had wi-fi".
"Well, boys. That's in the future still yet", Al said to Jed, Rex and Clarence. "In the meantime, we still have a library and books we can access information from".
During the next hour and a half, more planes occasionally landed or took off from the runways, beginning with a DC-3 passenger liner taking off from the runway the Air Force planes have been using.  Within that hour, two more F-104 fighter jets had also taken off as the family enjoyed watching the planes.
After more planes had landed and taken off, Al had to reload a fresh roll of 8mm film in the movie camera. It wasn't very long thereafter that Marge also had to load a new roll of 35mm film in the Rolleiflex camera.
Eventually, the first F-104 the family saw take off a while earlier finally came back in off patrol and landed. The family had a great time watching the planes take off and land that Sunday...including Clarence finding out that Jet planes already existed by 1960.
It was getting to be four o'clock in the afternoon when the Coyote Family decided to call it a day. Just before they were about to leave to head home, they noticed a C-123 military cargo plane at the far end of the runway waiting to take off.
"I have an idea for a picture with that next plane about to take off", Marge said.
"That is?", Al replied.
"I'd like to have the cubs stand next to each other so the plane is in the background taking off", Marge explained.
"That would make a great picture", Al said. "I'll get some movie footage of that too".
Just then, the C-123 revved up it's two engines and began making it's run down the runway.
"That plane's taking off now", Al said. "Places everyone".
With that said, the cubs lined up ahead of the Plymouth wagon with the end of the runway in the background as Al and Marge got into location with the cameras.
"They're just about here", Marge said as the C-124 sped up faster and faster just before lifting off of the runway.
As the C-124 finally lifted off the runway, the Coyote Family was ready to take the photo.
Within moments the plane zoomed by as Marge got the photo, and Al got the brief moment of video footage, of the cubs with the C-123  flying by in the background.
https://youtu.be/pSDS1IcJxMg?t=23

"The picture went great", Marge said as the cubs cheered.
"The movie came out okay too", Al proudly announced.
"I can barely wait to see it developed", Clarence proclaimed.
"We're taking the film and movie footage to be developed as soon as possible", Al assured Clarence, referring to the drug store in Vaughn where they usually drop their film off for developing.
"Can we watch the movies before Clarence takes them back to 2018 with him?", Donna asked.
"If there's time to do so", Al replied to Donna. "That would depend on how soon they're developed, and how soon or late the time machine is finally repaired".
"We could drop the film off for developing today", Marge suggested. "Although the drug store is open on Sunday, they close at seven".
At shortly after four it was still daylight, and being it was August when the days are longer, dusk was still approximately four hours away yet.
"It would be a good idea to leave now if we're going to drop the film off today", Al added. "It's better to have time to spare than to not make it before they close".
So with that said, and it already being called a day, the family agreed now was a good time to leave. So everyone got back into station wagon so they can make it to the drug store in Vaughn on time to drop off the film at the photo counter. From the airport to Vaughn was about 110 miles. However, with New Mexico being mostly very rural, and the highways being well suited for high speed, the family knew they would be able to make good time arriving with adequate time to spare.
After leaving from where they were parked outside the airport, they made their way to Route 66 there in Albuquerque...with Marge driving of course...The Plymouth Fury wagon was Marge's car, and the Chrysler 300 was Al's car, though both cars were titled in both of their names.
Upon leaving the east side of Albuquerque, they rode past Tri-Star Plaza as they entered the stretch of I-40 that goes to Moriarty. Shortly before arriving to Mariarty, I-40 turned back into Route 66 for the duration of going through town...Then it went back to being I-40 heading east out of town.
On the 20 miles they rode on I-40 between Moriarty and the Clines Corners exit, Marge was driving at speeds between 75 and 85mph, and sometimes up to 90mph. Back in the day, it was fairly common for anthro-animals to drive at those speeds on the open highways in that part of the country.
"Making time at this rate, we should have time to get supper at the diner counter after we drop the film off", Al mentioned to Marge, not long before arriving to the Clines Corners exit".
"Can we get ice cream while we're there?!", Donna exuberantly asked.
"Yea, can we?", Rex added as Jed and Clarence chimed in with a resounding "Yea".
"Sound good to you, Al?", Marge asked.
"It's okay by me", Al answered as the cubs cheered.
At the Clines Corners exit, they exited to head south on Highway 285. Marge also made good time running speeds between 75 and 90 mph on 285 as well, which 285 was only a two lane highway back in the day...They soon passed by where she and the cubs saw that 1958 Chevy that was overturned. And not long thereafter, they sped past the house trailer home of Rufus and Laura Opossum and their cubs; Lisa, Vince, Lester, Dora and Sheila.

Rufus does the janitor and maintenance work for the Torrance County School in Estancia, which is the school where Al and Marge's cubs attend.
After twenty seven miles down Highway 285, they arrived to Encino, which was where the Horizon Innovations Laboratory complex is where Al works...Of course Marge slowed down to 35mph to go through town.
Normally, the family would head down Rural Route 3 from Encino to head home to Duran. However, being they were headed to the drug store in Vaughn to drop the film off, they headed east on Highway 60. Upon leaving Encino, there was only 22 more miles to Vaughn, in which Marge resumed the higher speeds.
It was three miles south of Vaughn where Highway 60 intersected in with Highway 54.
As they rode over the Highway 60 crossing for the Southern Pacific Railroad, shortly before the Highway 54 intersection, Clarence asked, "Can we stop and get some pictures of where my actual family's home will be one day".
"We had already gotten pictures of it that time we were out taking pictures", Marge said to Clarence.
"Yea, I know. But I'd like to get a few more", Clarence replied.
As Marge stopped for the T intersection of 60-54, Al mentioned, "It's not quite five thirty yet. We have plenty of time".
"Well, okay", Marge agreed as she turned north on Highway 54 with Vaughn being only three miles away.
Several hundred feet past the intersection just to the right off of Highway 54 is the land that would be the home of Clarence and his family in the 21st Century.
After Marge parked the car along side the highway, and everyone got out, Clarence felt that feeling of missing his original family.
"This sure is my original home", said Clarence. "But it's not my home in this day and time".
"I know that has to feel lonely. But it shouldn't be long before you'll be able to return to the future", Marge acknowledged to Clarence as she was taking pictures on the remaining unused portion of the film still in the camera.
"That osculation fluctuator is really the only thing left before the time machine is operational", Al assured Marge and Clarence.
The land that Clarence remembered he would someday live and grow up at was familiar to him, though he knew it would be nearly 50 years before his family's doublewide home would be there. And 1960 was a day and time before his parents and grandparents were even born.
"I still have some unused movie footage left in the Revere", Al mentioned. "I might as well use up the rest of it to get a movie of Clarence's family's future home-site".
"How about getting that footage with us in it?", Marge suggested to Al.
"Great idea", Al replied.
"That would be cool to take back with me", Clarence agreed.
So with Marge and the cubs in the foreground, Al got some movie footage of the future homesite with their Revere, Model 50, 8mm, movie camera. Al then gave the camera to Marge so she can get footage with Al and the cubs. After that, there was still some film left, which Al used the rest of it to film footage as he panned it across the site.
"Well that's it. We got it", Al said after the film was run to the end in both cameras.
Then everyone got back into the station wagon, and it was off to Vaughn, which was only three miles left to go.
Including the stop to get photos and movie footage of the home-site, the 110 mile trip from Albuquerque to Vaughn took only an hour and 35 minutes...Marge made good time driving on the way over. It was 5:35 pm when the family arrived to the drug store, and within a few minutes they met Hugh Otter at the photo counter to drop off the film for developing.
"Ebeneezer Pine Martin here today", Marge asked Hugh as they were checking the film in.
"Ebeneezer took the day off", Hugh Otter replied. "He's got me working the photo counter today".
"We got pictures and movies of airplanes", Donna exuberantly exclaimed.
"Oh, that's wonderful", Hugh Otter replied to Donna as he filled out the claim tickets for the film.
"We let the cubs see the planes take off in Albuquerque today", Marge said to Hugh.
Of course, Jed and Rex told Hugh Otter the kinds of planes they saw that day. Clarence not being familiar with air crafts a half a century before his time, pretty much described to Hugh the the way the planes look in appearance...While Jed and Rex made mention, "We saw a couple of C-123s", Clarence described it as, "We saw those kind of planes with the two motors, and it bends upward in the back with a loading door".
"Your movies and photos should be back in three days. No more than four", Hugh Otter assured the coyotes as he completed their claim tickets.
"Dad. Would that be in time?", Rex discreetly asked.
"Not now", Al replied to Rex as he received the claim tickets.
It was shortly after 5:40 pm upon receiving the claim tickets in which to pick up the photos and movies once they come back developed days later.
"Give our regards to Ebeneezer when you see him", Al bid to Hugh Otter.
"I will", Hugh replied.
There was still well over an hour left to enjoy supper at the diner counter before the drug store would close at 7:00 pm.
As the family began making their way toward the diner counter, Al made sure no other patrons were within earshot, then discreetly said to Rex, "You know better than to discuss the time machine around others who don't know about it".
"I didn't mention anything about the machine though", Rex replied.
"Maybe so. But you were taking a risk back there at the photo counter", Al said, still making sure there were no other patrons nearby.
"What your dad is saying is, in that conversation, someone could have a slip of the tongue", Marge added.
"Well, I guess so", Rex acknowledged, then asked, "But will three days be in time before the machine is fixed?"
"We don't know. No one knows yet how soon the machine will be ready", Al answered Rex as the family held off a moment before going to the diner counter.
Clarence then asked, "So if the machine gets fixed before three days, I guess that means I'll have to leave the airplane pictures and movies behind?".
"If that happens, we'll keep them for you in a safe place until 2018", Marge assured Clarence.
"And we'll give them to you then", Al added, still looking out for nearby patrons.
"Or we could give them to Clarence when he's little", Jed suggested.
"You mean like when I'm five years old or something?", Clarence asked. "But I'm already eight".
"In this day and time, you're not even born yet", Al reminded Clarence. "Remember, the only reason you're existing here in 1960 is because you traveled here from your future day and time".
"Oh yea. I guess I wasn't thinking about that", Clarence acknowledged.
"True you are here in 1960. But your being eight years old is what you would be 58 years from now", Al further explained to Clarence. "You'll be born in 2018, the time machine is planned to be built in 1970, and your laptop, drawing tablet and portable phone you came here with haven't been invented yet".
Marge then said to Jed, "If Clarence gets to go back to his day and time before the pictures are ready, let's not spoil the surprise by giving them to him that early".
"If we gave the photos and movies to Clarence in a time era before he has the experience of traveling here to 1960, he wouldn't understand what they even are", Al mentioned.
"Soooo, if the pictures aren't ready in time, I guess I'll get them at the age I am now?", Clarence asked.
"Right. We wouldn't be giving them to you in 2014, or 2015, or any year before 2018", Al assured Clarence. "If they're not ready in time, we'll be giving them to you when you step out of that time machine in the year 2018".
"Or some of our grand cubs will be giving them to you if Al and I are not still around", Marge further assured Clarence.
"I'll be almost 70 by then...I think", Jed interjected.
"Well, we're really discussing a lot of ifs, ands and maybes", Al said. "For all we know, the photos and movies might be ready before the machine is fixed".
With all that being said, everyone continued on their way to the diner counter to have supper.
"Al. Marge. How's it going?", waitress Lavern Fox greeted.
"Doing great", Al replied.
"Very well, Lavern. And you?", Marge replied.
"Going well", Lavern affirmed, then asked, "And what were the little cubs up to today?"
"Hi there", the cook, Max Raccoon, greeted the family as the cubs began sharing stories of the day's adventures watching the planes.
After the round of conversation, the family ordered blue plate specials, which were a main course including two side orders and a choice of beverage for 85 cents...That would be like a blue plate special for eight dollars and 50 cents in the 21st Century. The family, sitting up at the counter instead of at a booth, leisurely enjoyed their meals, as well as social conversation with Lavern Fox and Max Raccoon in the relaxing atmosphere of the dining area. And after supper, everyone had ice cream; Marge getting a banana split, Al getting a root beer float, Donna getting a sundae, Rex getting an ice cream soda, and Jed and Clarence getting milkshakes. After finishing their ice cream, the family stayed around and conversed with Lavern and Max, as well as with some patrons they've met there before, until closing time at 7:00 pm.
At closing time, Al paid the bill which came to not much over eight dollars for the blue plate specials and ice cream for the family of six, and Marge left a tip of one dollar and 60 cents...That would be like an 80 dollar tab and a 16 dollar tip in the 21st Century.
Then it was head for home back in Duran. At 7:25, Al, Marge and the cubs arrived home, which at that time the cubs thanked Mom and Dad for the time they enjoyed watching the airplanes.
For the rest of the evening, the cubs played with their 027 gauge toy trains on the train board in the recreation den...the gauge that uses the three rail tracks.
Finally after two and a half hours of playing with the toy trains, it was 10:00 pm and time for bed. Come the following morning, the cubs were scheduled to get physicals and vaccines in order to register for the 1960 - 1961 school year. It was already half way through the month of August, which meant the starting of school in early September was only a half a month away.
However, all and all, that Sunday in August on the 15th had been a very good day.

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DURING THE NIGHT, after watching the airplanes take off during the day...at the end of SUNDAY, AUGUST 14th, 1960

It was 10 o'clock that Sunday night in the community of Duran, New Mexico. And at the residence of the Rhonson Coyote Family it was getting time for the cubs to get to bed. Earlier during that Sunday, everyone had enjoyed watching the planes taking off earlier in the day in Albuquerque after church was over, which was quite a treat for the cubs. And after coming home that evening, the cubs enjoyed playing with their 0.27 gauge trains for a while until it was time to go to bed.
"It's getting late, and the cubs are scheduled for their back to school physicals tomorrow morning", Marge reminded Al.
"I'm glad you reminded me of that", Al replied.
"Okay, everyone. It's time to be getting to bed", Al announced to the cubs shortly past 10:00 pm. "You have back to school physicals tomorrow morning".
"Can we stay up a little longer?", Jed asked.
The cubs were having lots of fun running their toy trains on their large train board.

Coyote Cubs' Train Board Layout by moyomongoose

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"Yea. I was about to have a train drag a car", Rex added as he had a Matchbox brand, toy Vauxhall Cresta tied to the back of a toy train with a length of string, and ready to drag the die cast toy automobile down the tracks.

Matchbox Car Tied Behind Toy Train by moyomongoose

"That's gonna be wild", said Clarence in anticipation of watching the train drag the automobile.
""To bed", Al insisted to the cubs, then explained, "And Rex. What you're about to do with that die cast metal car will short circuit the tracks. That's best done with a plastic car".
"I'll switch it out for this one then", Rex proclaimed as he reached for a plastic, O scale, 1960, Plymouth sedan parked near a 1/72 scale model church".
"You're not switching out anything right now", Al told Rex. "It's to bed now, or we're talking about a different kind of switching".
That promptly got Rex's attention...And what Al said to Rex also got Jed's attention just before he was about to make his way over to the transformer and controls to be ready to start the train.
"You cubs have an appointment with Dr. Ruben Ocelot tomorrow for your back to school physicals", Marge told the cubs.
"It's past ten o'clock already", Al exclaimed. "You cubs need to be getting to bed".
"Does that go for me too?", Clarence asked. "Being that, you know, they're close to getting the time machine fixed?".
"Jamar Mongoose had made good progress on back engineering and duplicating that osculation fluctuator. But we do still have final repairs of the machine ahead of us to go yet", Al said to Clarence.
Marge added, saying to Clarence, "And if the machine's not fixed by the time school begins, you can't be staying out skipping school".
"Oh, okay", Clarence acknowledged.
"We'll still be in the same class together", Rex assured Clarence.
"Yea, that's right. Like we were in Glenda Otter's class in the 3rd grade", Clarence affirmed.
"Wanda Bear is the 4th grade teacher. And she's not as strict as Glenda Otter is", Jed mentioned from his past experience going through the 4th grade.
"Wanda Bear will be our teacher when school starts this year", Rex said to Clarence.
"Well, school for you cubs can't start without your back to school physicals", Al told the cubs.
"So you cubs need to be getting to bed", Marge added.
"We don't have to get stuck tomorrow with a pookey ole needle, do we?", Donna retorted.
"Those pookey ole needles as you call them are vaccines", Marge mentioned to Donna. "Those are to prevent you from getting a bad disease from another cub in school".
"And there's also the naked part", Rex jested.
"Yeah. Don't let the little red guy out of his sheath", Jed added as the cubs laughed.
"Jed. Rex.", Al called down the two boys. "That's enough of that kind of talk. This house is not a locker room...Okay?".
"Oh. Okay, Dad", Oldest brother Jed acknowledged.
"I just don't like being Miss Pin Cushion though", Donna insisted. "Don't they have the vaccines as a pill?"
Al replied to Donna, "If you ever end up like Ryan and Janice Lynx's younger brother did three years ago, you'd wish you had those vaccines".
"Oh gee, I didn't know Ryan and Janice had a younger brother", Clarence said.
"They use to", Al said to Clarence. "Landon Lynx".
Al then explained to Clarence how Landon passed away at home of feline panleukopenia one April night back in 1957.
"He was only 5 years old", Marge further said to Clarence. "I remember Ryan was nine years old then, and Janice was six. Everyone really missed him".
"Most of us still do", Al added.
"I was only three back then", Donna further added.
"Wow. I guess that's a good reason to get the vaccines, isn't it", Clarence replied.
"I'd say so", Al answered Clarence.
"Well...I guess getting sticked with the needles is better than windin' up like Landon did", Donna finally admitted.
"That's right", Al replied to Donna, then announced, "So...You cubs get your shower then head for the bed".
"They should get their shower in the morning being they're going to the doctor", Marge suggested to Al.
"Okay then...Straight to bed", Al said to the cubs in agreement with Marge.
With that said, Jed, Rex, Clarence and Donna promptly got to bed. Al and Marge then went around the house setting the window fans into motion, being it was a hot August summer night. The last thing was to turn on the radio in the dining room to play music soft and low during the night. After that, Al and Marge got to bed.
As it had been on most summer nights, the sounds of the katydids singing outside, the window fans running, and the radio playing soft and low made an excellent combination of white noise to sleep by.

Close-up of Radio and Fan [Page 3] by moyomongoose

An Intended Excerpt Added to the End of Part 43 of Clarence Coyote and Project Courier by moyomongoose

After everyone had gotten to sleep as the radio played soft and low with the katydids singing and the window fans humming, Clarence had a dream that seemed so prophetic and real. The dream was of Clarence being back in the year 2018, and he and his biological siblings, Jack and Rhonda, were playing with the grandcubs of Jed, Rex, Donna, Ryan Lynx, Janice Lynx and Randy Fox. Another vision in the dream was of the surviving grandparents (Al, Marge and Victoria Lynx), grandparents, parents and the cubs getting ice cream in the nearby hometown of Vaughn.

Clarence had been having these kind of prophetic dreams during some nights as far back as late July, which could very well have been glimpses into the years and days to come. After all, had Clarence not taken his journey to the year 1960, Al, Marge and their cubs, along with their neighbors in Duran, would never have the occasion to become acquainted with Clarence and his family near Vaughn.

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DURING THE NIGHT at the end of SUNDAY, AUGUST 14th, 1960 and before dawn MONDAY MORNING THE 15th
Approximately 50 miles north of Duran, in the town of Santa Rosa, Skip Raccoon and his girl friend, Sophia, were out on a date in Skip's dad's 1957 Mercury at the Comet Drive-in.
https://www.google.com/search?q=1957+mercury+2+door+har...
Of course, Skip's parents, as well as Sophia's parents, have always wanted them in at night by 10 o'clock. However, 10 o'clock was an hour ago. It was going on 11 o'clock, and the teenage raccoon couple were still an hour and 20 minutes away from their hometown of Moriarty.
There at the Comet Drive-in also were Colton and Jan Fox, who are two of Skip and Sophia's fellow graduates from Estancia High School class of 1960. Colton and Jan were in Colton's dad's 1954 Kaiser Manhattan, parked along side Skip and Sophia.
https://www.google.com/search?q=1954+kaiser+manhattan&a...
The Comet Drive-in had a music system with outside speakers which played songs turned down soft and low. The song presently playing was a 1960 release titled, Always - Always.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5YOAH-Vyng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzWFPE2B_hs
"So how was your day, Skip", Colton Fox asked during the course of conversation.
"I helped my dad get his table saw fixed today", Skip answered. "We finally got an arbor we needed to get the saw working. And we were able to begin building a tool shed this evening".
"Oh that sounds cool", Colton replied, then asked, "Wasn't your dad's saw down since the end of last month?"
"Yea it was", Skip answered. "They had the order loused up for three weeks on that part we needed".
"I remember hearing about that", Sophia said. "That flub-a-dub was going on since the end of July, wasn't it?".
"Sure was", Skip affirmed.
"Speaking about flub-a-dubs", Colton Fox said. "Looking for work's been one big flub-a-dub, let me tell ya".
"No luck finding work?", Skip Raccoon asked Colton Fox.
"Not yet, Skip", Colton replied. "Just ain't easy, ya know".
Colton's girl friend, Jan Fox, added, "Colton's been trying to find a job sense we graduated three months ago".
"We're all just starting out in life, you know", Sophia Raccoon assured the teen foxes, Colton and Jan. "Something's bound to happen. Just got to be patient".
"My dad offered me a job in his car repair shop", Colton Fox said. "I originally wanted to find a job on my own, but if nothing happens soon, I'll take up on my dad's offer".
"Oh shucks. You should", Skip Raccoon said to Colton. "Car repair is a good trade to get into".
"I'm considering it", Colton replied.
"You did good, Skip", Jan Fox said. "You got that machine shop apprentice job right after we graduated".
"Are they still hiring?", Colton Fox asked.
"I wish I could say they are. But they're not right now", Skip replied.
"Aw, ain't that a bite", Colton retorted.
"I know. It's a shame they're not", Sophia Raccoon mentioned. "Skip has $540 saved up since he started".
"Boy I can sure dig that. That's a hunk a dough", Colton said.
$540 in 1960 was like $5,400 is in the 21st Century.
"I might have enough by now to get my own car...And maybe even enough left over to hop it up as a hot rod", Skip proudly proclaimed.
"Oh that would be so keen", Sophia added. "A hot rod would be the upmost".
"It would beat driving Daddy's crate, like I'll be doing for a while to come", Colton said.
"Well, I know that's got to feel like nowheresville", Skip assured Colton. "But you know something's got to shake sooner or later".
"How late is this joint open tonight anyway?", Colton then asked.
"Till midnight on weekends", Skip answered as Sophia nodded in agreement. "This is Sunday night".
"Wanna stay out till midnight?", Jan asked Colton.
"I'm hip for it, Baby", Colton replied.
"Sophia and I will be here till they close tonight too", Skip proclaimed.
"That's our game plan for tonight", Sophia agreed.
Colton Fox then mentioned to Skip, "Yea, but...I thought your mom and dad, and her mom and dad as well, would have a cow about you all rollin' in after ten".
Sophia added, "We're already 18, and our parents treating us like cubs has gotta stop".
"That's right", Skip added. "We don't stay cubs all our lives. And our parents have to learn to dig that...Ya know?"
Colton mentioned to Skip, "Just hope your dad doesn't snatch the wheels out from under you. That is your dad's crate after all".
Skip Raccoon replied, "With the money I got, I'll simply buy a car of my own if he does".
A short while later, the Comet Drive-in's music system was playing another 1960 release, Ev'ry Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af56OAbnvrA
As the fox and raccoon youths were enjoying their burgers 'n' fries 'n' cherry pies...and a shake, Guss Bear and his fiancée, Marsha, who also graduated high school three months earlier, came riding in on Guss' Harley Davidson.
"Heyyy, Skip...Sophia", Guss Bear called out as he and Marsha pulled up.
"What's buzzin', cuzzin?", Marsha added.
"Same ole, same ole", Skip replied, "How about you".
"Couldn't be better", Marsha answered as Guss agreed.
Guss then said to Skip and Sophia, "I didn't expect to see you two out this late. Don't your parents have that 'in by ten' rule?"
"Not tonight, Guss", Sophia Raccoon answered, "We're gonna show our parents tonight we can stay out as long as we like".
"Yea I can dig that. That beezwax of being treated like a cub never is cool", Guss said to Sophia. "Marsha's parents and my parents let us stay out late as we want".
"And that beezwax is getting old big time too", Skip added.
"She-whiz. I know it has to be", Guss Bear agreed.
"Guss and I have also been looking into getting a pad of our own", Marsha said as she and Guss were getting off the Harley.
"And we plan on getting married before the end of the year", Guss added as Colton, Jan, Skip and Sophia congratulated them.
"Well, we're going to go over and place our order", said Guss as he and Marsha made their way to the order window.
Being that Guss and Marsha were on a motorcycle, it was a good thing the Comet Drive-in had outdoor tables...Those tables and benches were the kind that were made completely of precast concrete.
Not long thereafter, Danny Otter with his girl friend, Lidia, rode up in Danny's Studebaker Golden Hawk.
https://www.google.com/search?q=1958+studebaker+goldenh...
Danny pulled up along side Skip and Sophia in the '57 Mercury so he and Lidia can socialize with the raccoon couple and the fox couple after they order their meals. By the way, Danny and Lidia Otter are also graduates of Estancia High School class of 1960.
Once the otter couple got their food and drink, they took it out to the car. Skip, Sophia, Colton and Jan had by this time got out of the cars so everyone can stand around and talk.
A 'King of Rock-n-Roll' song was playing on the Comet Drive-in's music system by this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UsiVkugQVo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvP8oJQKGHw
There was also a teenage wolf couple in a hot rod made up from an old, black, 1932, Ford hot rod (a deuce) with flames painted on the sides. And there was teenage cougar couple in a 1953 Ford that was also hopped up as a hot rod. Those couples were graduates of Vaughn High School class of 1960 (county north of Torrance County).
As for those teenagers who were not yet high school graduates, they had already left being that it had been 10 o'clock well more than an hour ago. That was because they were still at ages of 16 and 17, thus being at an age when Mommy and Daddy still laid down the rule of what time to be back home...Plus the younger teens would be in violation of Santa Rosa's curfew on minors if they were still out after 10:00 within city limits.
Eventually, it was getting even further past eleven o'clock.
"Well, I know my dad is pitching a cow 'bout now", Skip Raccoon said.
"So's mine I'm sure. Since more than an hour ago", Sophia added. "But we're showing them a thing or two".
"Showing your folks what?", Lidia asked.
"Showing them that we're old enough not to have to be in by ten", Skip interjected.
"What? You two are 18, and your folks want you in when the young bucks and teenyboppers come home?", Danny Otter asked, then said. "Ever since I graduated, my dad and mom doesn't worry about how long I stay out".
"Mine neither", Lidia added.
"Same with my brother, Jeff", Danny continued. "When he graduated a few years ago, he was able to stay out as late as he wants...Of course, Jeff has his own place now".
"Uh oh. Here comes bad news", Colton Fox said.
"Wouldn't ya know it...Biff and bunch in their creepmobile", Skip Raccoon added as a Gold 1959 Cadillac with a white roof came rolling into the parking lot.

Luck Won't be With Them Forever [Page 2] by moyomongoose

"Yea, the classic party pooper bunch", Sophia added.
"The goon platoon more like it", Jan Fox further added.
And sure enough, it was the delinquent pit bull teens, Biff, Richie, Gaston and their girl friends Sandra, Avia and Roxane.
After Biff parked the Cadillac, his younger brother Richie got out and emulated a royal herald trumpet by going, "Bawhhh Bawp-bawp-bawp-bawp--bawp bawp bawp bawp bawp bawhhhhhhh...Bawp-bawp bawp-bawhhhhhhh".
Of course they've been drinking, which was evident by the partially consumed fifth of Old Crow whiskey in the car, the alcohol smell on their breaths, and by the way the pit bull teens were foolishly acting.
As the rest of the gang exited the Cadillac belonging to Biff and Richie's dad, Gaston remarked to Sophia Raccoon, "Hey, Bitch. I gotta itch", which got the rest of the pit bull teens laughing.
Immediately, Skip Raccoon ran up and slammed Gaston facedown onto the gravel parking lot, and hollered, "DON'T YOU EVER TALK THAT KIND OF SHIT AT MY GIRL FRIEND AGAIN!".
"Hey, punk. You wanna try pushing me like that?", Biff retorted at Skip as Gaston slowly got back up off the ground and spitting out a couple pieces of gravel.
"Just give me a reason to and I'll slam you too, Biff. I'm not scared of you", Skip replied.
"Oh yea? You forgot what I did to Buckey Beaver when we were still in school?" Biff asked Skip.
"Big whoopie shit. An elementary school cub", Guss Bear interjected at Biff.
"Who asked you?", Biff retorted back at Guss.
"Really took a brave bad ass to beat up a little third grade beaver cub, didn't it, Biff?", Skip retorted.
"So what?", Biff retorted.
"Oh real classic come back, Biff...So what", Sophia remarked.
Guss Bear wasn't scared of Biff either and got up from the table to walk over and provide back up for Skip.
"You want trouble, Biff ? You'll get it", Guss warned Biff and his bunch as he came walking over.
Colton Fox however was among those who felt intimidated by Biff and his cronies...Though despite his fear of Biff and the bunch, he did stand with Skip and Guss as back up, but still showing outward signs of feeling uneasy.
Danny Otter wasn't scared of Biff and his cronies either, however Danny was a loose knit associate within their circle of friends, and had been since elementary school.
"Hey look Biff. Cool it", Danny said to Biff, trying to defuse the situation. "There's three guys against you three guys, and you all been drinking".
"Aw come on, Danny", Biff retorted. "You know no one shoves one of my guys like Skippy the trash panda did and gets away with it".
"Watch your pie hole, Biff! And my name happens to be Skip!...Get that?!", Skip Raccoon retorted at Biff for calling him Skippy the trash panda.
"Care to prove it?!", Biff blasted at Skip.
"Keep running your big bazoo, Biff, and bust it wide open for ya!", Skip warned Biff.
Skip was fully capable of messing up any of those pit bull teens really bad, and everyone knew it. And Skip could have mopped the parking lot with Biff anytime he wanted to.
"Gaston was in the wrong and he had it coming, and you know it", Danny retorted to Biff. "But like I said, it's three on three and you all have been drinking".
"Six of us on three, counting us girls", Sandra wisecracked.
"Even the score with us girls, Sandraaaaa. Six on six", Sophia Raccoon retorted back to Sandra.
"Guss and I are bears. And I'm not just talking about the name of our varsity football team either", Martha Bear reminded Biff and gang. "Pit bulls don't stand a chance fighting us bears you know".
Danny finally said, "Tell ya what, Biff. You start something, I'll stand with them too. It'll be seven on six".
"Oh for crying out loud, Danny!", Biff retorted.
"I mean it, Biff", Danny warned Biff.
Danny Otter's girl friend, Lidia, pleaded, "Danny, please stay out of it".
"What the fuck?", Richie added.
"Oh that's like...soooo uncool, Dan", Roxane retorted. "Like, for real".
About that time, the cougar and the wolf who graduated from Vaughn came walking over.
The cougar warned the pit bull teens, "I'll stand with them also, you morons".
"Same here", said the wolf.
"Let it go, Biff. It won't end well for you", Danny Otter advised Biff.
About that time, the night manager of the drive-in (a Badger) came out and announced, "I just now got off the phone with the police and they're on their way here".
After the other animals testified that Biff and the other pit bulls were the trouble makers, the badger ordered Biff and his bunch off the premises.
"This is a public place", Richie popped off at the badger. "We gotta right to be here".
"YEA!" Get a loada THOSE apples why don'tcha!", Gaston further wised off like he was shouting it from the roof top.
"Shut up, Gaston!", Sophia Raccoon retorted. "Remember how bad Skip beat the living Hell out of you in school last year?!"
"I can always give him another beatin'! Right here! Right now!", Skip proclaimed. "I bet that'll shut him up!"
"Look here, boy. You need to cool down. Okay?", the badger told Skip.
After the badger got Skip to calm down, he then warned the pit bull teens, "All six of you got a choice. Leave now. Or if you are here when the police arrive, all six of you are going to jail".
That got the attention of Biff and other pit bull teens real quick, despite the fact they were drunk. After they scrambled their way back into the Cadillac, Biff cranked it up, put it in reverse and hurriedly spun wheels backing out of the parking lot.
As Biff put the Cadillac in drive, Richie hollered from the front passenger's seat", "KISS MY ASS!".
"FLAKE OFF, DADDY-O!", Avia shouted at the badger from the back seat as Biff floored the accelerator, slinging gravel on the way out of the parking lot.
Rear tires smoked and squalled after the Cadillac left the gravel and hit the pavement.
Biff and gang then highballed it down the street out of there.
"Assholes", Skip said of Biff and his cronies.
"Takes all kinds", Marsha Bear added.
After they were gone, Guss Bear thanked the cougar and the wolf for coming to their aid.
"Any time", the cougar replied.
"We had two wolverines who are like that in our school who graduated with us this year", the wolf mentioned.
"Every school's got 'em, I guess", Guss Bear said.
"And how", Marsha Bear added.
"Now that those knuckleheads are down the road, things can get back to being peaceful", Colton Fox said as the cougar and the wolf walked back to their cars to be with their girl friends.
"Biff and his cardboard warriors are more façade than you'd think", Skip Raccoon tried to assure Colton Fox. "Don't be scared of them".
"Don't underestimate them either", Danny Otter said to Skip. "I've known Biff and Richie since we were cubs. They could mess up someone their size if they wanted to".
"Danny's right", Lidia Otter affirmed. "I too have known Biff and Richie since we were cubs".
"Means nothing to me", Skip Raccoon proclaimed. "If I see that punk Gaston again tonight, he better hope his daddy has good hospitalization insurance on him. He'll need it".
"You do know Skip was on our high school football team", Sophia Raccoon reminded Danny and Lidia Otter.
"I know", Danny acknowledged.
"I can take any of them any day", Skip affirmed.
"Well...In your case, you're probably right, Skip", Danny Otter admitted. "A high school bully is usually no match for a high school jock like yourself ".
Everyone then continued to enjoy what was left to the evening as the music system played an older song titled A Dance, a Kiss, and a Promise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbquUGAo07M
Of course, it wasn't long before midnight which was the time the Comet Drive-in closed on week ends. And when it was finally closing time, everyone headed home after an enjoyable evening out on a date.
The badger who was the night manager still had some clean up to do before locking the place up to go home.
As for Biff Pitbull and company, they had it set in their noggins to cruise around looking for more mischief for a while longer before calling it a night.
Like everyone else did, Sophia and Skip headed homeward out on the way to Moriarty so Skip can drop Sophia off at her parents' house, after which Skip would go home to his parents' house.
"I'm so proud of how you defended my honor from that creep", Sophia said to Skip as they headed west on Route 66 out of Santa Rosa.
"Yea, Gaston don't have much sense", Skip acknowledged as they continued along Route 66. "One day that rockhead is gonna get himself hurt, and hurt bad".
After going over the Southern Pacific railroad crossing out of town, Route 66 was then open highway. Though no other cars being on the road that late at night made it conducive for higher speeds, Skip still kept his dad's '57 Mercury at the night time speed limit of 65 mph.
While cruising along, a romantic song played soft and low on the radio of that '57 Mercury.

Skip and Sophia Raccoon Out Late on a Date - Posted as MP4 by moyomongoose

The ride seemed so romantic with Skip and Sophia snuggled beside each other in that big powerful Mercury travelling down the lone highway...and with the song playing, and the stars above in the night sky.
Eventually they drove past The Hop, which of course was closed being it was well past a Sunday midnight.
"Oh, Skip", Sophia spoke up shortly after riding past The Hop.
"What is it, Dear?", Skip replied.
"Have you planned what to say to your parents about us being out so late?", Sophia asked.
"Not really", Skip answered. "I'll just play it by ear, I guess".
"I haven't thought of what to say to my parents either. But I gonna give 'em an ear full", Sophia said as she and Skip briefly laughed.
"It is high time our parents get the picture we're not cubs anymore", Skip acknowledged.
As Skip and Sophia eventually came to where Route 66 turns into the newly constructed Interstate 40, Sophia slid over across the front seat to cuddle up to Skip as they continued home. A few songs had played on the car's radio since leaving Santa Rosa. Other nice songs played on the car's radio while they were cruising along Interstate 40 in Skip's Dad's '57 Mercury under the romantic, starry sky on that warm August night, including...

Skip and Sophia Raccoon on I-40 - Posted as MP-4 by moyomongoose

A short while later, another song was playing on the car's radio as they were a few miles from approaching the exit for Clines Corners.

Cline's Corners Exit a Mile Ahead - Posted as MP-4 by moyomongoose

Meeting a Truck on Interstate 40 by moyomongoose

"We're going to need gas", Skip said as he slowed down for the exit.
Observing the gas gauge was reading near empty, Sophia remarked, "Yea, I don't think your dad would be too happy bringing the car back on an empty tank".
"I don't think what we got would have gotten us home to begin with", Skip added as he pulled off onto the exit.
Upon leaving I-40, Skip pulled in at a Sinclair gas station on a corner of the interstate and Highway 285 which was open all night.
Pulling up to the gas pumps, there was the small air cord that alerts the attendant of a customer...When a car rolls over the cord, squeezed air pressure rings a bell inside the gas station sounding >ding ding<.
The attendant, a coatimundi, came out and asked, "Fill 'er up?"
"Naw. Just ten gallons of regular", Skip replied.
"Check your oil?", The attendant asked prior to pumping the gas.
"It's good. Thanks anyway", Skip replied.
As the attendant was pumping the ten gallons for Skip and Sophia Raccoon, Danny and Lidia Otter pulled up in their Studebaker Golden Hawk.
"Fancy meeting you here", Danny said to Skip.
"We're on our way home to hear the music from our parents", Sophia jested as everyone laughed.
"We're about to call it a night too", Danny replied.
"Hey Danny", Skip said. "I just want to say thank you for helping us stand down those morons at the drive-in tonight".
"No problem", Danny replied. "Lidia and I grew up around Biff and Richie as cubs. I just have to say they got issues".
"That will be 2 dollars and ninety cents", the attendant said after he finished pumping the ten gallons.
"Did gas go up?", Skip asked. "Ten gallons of regular here was two, sixty".
The attendant answered, "Since they remade Route 66 here into Interstate 40 I raised it three cents a gallon...I'm on an interstate now".
"Okay, whatever", Skip remarked as he gave the attendant three dollars and got a dime in change. It was then back onto the interstate to continue onto Moriarty and head home.
After Skip and Sophie had left, Danny Otter told the attendant, "The usual, Oscar. Fill it up with Ethel".
"Sure thing, Dan", Oscar Coatimundi replied, then asked, "Check the oil?".
"Oil's good", said Danny.
Danny Otter's Golden Hawk is a high performance car, so he always get's the really good stuff in the tank.
As Oscar Coatimundi was fueling up Danny's Studebaker Golden Hawk, that gold colour, 1959 Cadillac with a white roof pulled up...which was none other than Biff Pitbull and his cronies.
"We meet again", Danny greeted Biff from inside his car".
"That we did", Biff replied from inside his daddy's car.
"Hey, you shoulda seen what we did out on Highway 285 twenty minutes ago", Richie proclaimed to Danny and Lidia.
"We polished off a bottle of Old Crow we had with us", Biff added. "And we met one of those little Valiants like they came out with last year".
"I chucked the bottle over our car and got 'em", Richie said.
"Smack. Right in the windshield too", Roxane added.
"Oh oh oh", Gaston exclaimed. "Tell 'em what we did last night".
"Yea, that rebar gig", Richie laughed to Danny and Lidia.
"That was a good one", Roxane added.
Richie then continued, "You see, we took this piece of rebar. Then we bent it so it stands up with this long end pointing straight out...Dig?..."
"We set up in the middle of Zuni Road", Gaston laughed.
"In Albuquerque", Biff added then laughed, "And the first car that hit it was a Bernalillo County copper car, with two coppers in it".
"Yea, a fox and rabbit", Sandra boasted. "Then they took off after us".
"We hightailed it out of town on Interstate 40", Biff added.
"But then their car streamed up on them and quit", Sandra further added.
"That rebar fucked up their radiator. No wonder", Biff laughed.
"Yea well...What did you accomplish from any of that?" Danny asked.
"It was funny as shit. We got good shits 'n' giggles outta it", Gaston answered.
"I'm sure the owner of that Valiant you all threw the whiskey at tonight didn't get a good laugh", Danny assured Gaston.
"Aw come on, Danny. Stop being a killjoy", Biff replied. "That's their problem now anyway".
Lidia then called from the front passenger's seat of Danny's Studebaker to Biff and the others, "That scene you all made at the Comet Drive-in tonight really wasn't cool either. I hope you know that".
"That's right", Danny added. "No one comes to places like that with the idea in mind they're going to put up with crap like that".
"What's wrong? Nobody can take a joke?", Gaston asked from inside the Cadillac.
"That wasn't a matter of a joke, Gaston", said Lidia. "That remark you made at Sophia Raccoon tonight was inappropriate, and it was ignorant".
"You're lucky Skip didn't mop the parking lot with you", Danny said to Gaston.
"Hey, I'm not ig...", Gaston began to say.
"You know us by now", Biff said to Danny and Lidia as he interrupted Gaston. "We were just being...us".
"Yea, and that really should change", Danny replied.
"I'm not...", Gaston again began to say before he was again interrupted.
"Nawww. I don't think we can change", Biff again interrupted Gaston.
Gaston then quickly stated, "I'm not ignorant".
"Nice delayed response, Gaston", Richie jested.
"Yea, gee, thanks", Gaston replied.
"That will be four dollars and seventy two cents", Oscar Coatimundi said to Danny.
"Keep the change", Danny said as he pawed a five dollar bill to Oscar.
"Thanks, Dan", Oscar replied, then waited on the pit bull teens.
"Fill 'er up?", Oscar Coatimundi asked Biff.
"Yea. Fill 'er up. Regular", Biff replied.
"Check the oil?", Oscar asked.
"Naw, it's good", Biff answered.
"Yea. Oil's good. We had it for breakfast this morning.", Gaston wisecracked from the back seat.
"We got a comedian from the peanut gallery back there", Richie remarked as everyone laughed.
"So what are you up to for the rest of the night?", Biff asked Danny and Lidia as Oscar Coatimundi began pumping gas for the pit bulls..
"We're calling it a night", Danny replied, then asked, "How 'bout you".
"We doin' a laundromat gig", Richie interjected.
"Not so loud, Rich", Biff reminded his younger brother Richie.
Biff continued to tell Danny and Lidia, "There's a coin-op laundry in Santa Fe we want to hit tonight".
"We're hoping for a hefty haul out of that one", Sandra added.
"Oh...Like the one you all did in Albuquerque last week", Danny mentioned.
"You know about that?", Biff asked in surprise.
"Most of the alumni in our graduating class know about that", Danny replied.
"Shit...And that damn cougar who owns that laundromat is offering a reward too", Biff mentioned.
"Yea, we saw it on the news", Sandra said.
Danny then advised Biff, "One of these days, you all are going to get caught doing the stuff you do. It's just a matter of time".
Enough alcohol has a way of making one reply with silly stuff.
"Hey, we got it all figured out", Richie insisted. "We're too smart to get caught".
Lidia added, "Getting caught has already happened with that fire alarm stunt you all pulled a week before we graduated. Remember?".
"Yea, that", Biff said. "Well...Shit".
"That dopey coach coming around the corner in the hallway at the wrong time. That's why we got caught with that one", Richie replied.
"Is there really a wrong time to come around the corner of a hallway?", Lidia asked Richie.
Richie didn't have a come-back for that one.
Danny then said to Biff, "The only reason you weren't finked on so far for that Albuquerque gig was either animals like us are too loyal to snitch you out, or others are too scared of you to snitch".
Lidia mentioned to Biff. "You all are lucky Skip Raccoon doesn't know about it".
"Yea", Danny agreed. "Skip is not loyal to you all. And he doesn't like any of you".
"Well, that's no secret", Biff admitted. "Me and Richie have seen that all through high school".
"And he's not scared of you either...so", Danny continued.
Lidia added, "Skip would have no reason to not snitch you all out if he knew".
"That's five dollars and thirty four cents", Oscar Coatimundi said to Biff.
"Twenty eight cents a gallon?", Biff retorted. "Might proud of those prices ain'tcha?"
"If you don't like it, don't come back", Oscar replied to Biff.
"Okay okay", Biff replied as he paid Oscar.
Oscar Coatimundi then said to the drivers of both cars, "I'd like to ask you, if you're going to continue your conversation, can you pull over by the curb over there as not to block my gas pumps".
"Oh Okay, Oscar", Danny Otter replied as he and Biff drove their cars out of the way from the gas pumps.
Once parked by the curb at the end of the lot, Danny said to Biff, "You do know you can't make a lifelong career out of stealing gumball machines and burglarizing laundromats".
"Our dad said he'd teach us the construction trade one day, but that ain't never happened", Richie mentioned.
"It's like he's always too freakin' busy", Biff added.
"Maybe so", said Lidia. "But the owners of those laundromats and gumball machines have nothing to do with what your dad does and does not take the time to do".
"Well I ain't about to go around broke", Biff retorted. "Hell will freeze over first".
"Yea, Good looks don't buy stuff ya know", Sandra added.
Danny then suggested, "You know my dad works as a scientist at Horizon Innovations".
"Yea, right", Biff acknowledged. "I am aware of that".
Danny continued, "They offer an apprentice program for anyone who is interested in perusing a profession in science and engineering. I applied for that program and got accepted, and this coming morning will be my first day".
"They'll introduce Danny there in the morning after everyone there reports to work", Lidia added.
"My apprenticeship will be in the same department where my dad works too", Danny further added.
"Oh cool", Avia congratulated Danny. "Our friend Danny the scientist".
"Kinda got a ring to it", Richie added.
Lidia mentioned, "And they pay for your college as long as you are working for them. You'd go to college part time, and work at Horizon part time".
"It's a learn while you earn program", Danny said to Biff, "You got your high school diploma. If you can get them to get your juvenile criminal record sealed, I don't see why you can't get the entry level security clearance you'd need. You should go check it out".
"I duno", Biff replied. "I just don't dig that brainiac Professor Whittlespool scene...Ya know?...That's not me".
"Thanks anyway", Sandra said to Danny. "But that noodle blaster nerd scene is really not my cup of tea either".
"Same here", Roxane added.
"You realize what a profession like that pays though?", Lidia asked.
"I'm sure it pays well", Biff admitted. "And no offence intended to you, Danny. But no job can pay me enough to make me feel like I'm a square nerd".
"That job would definitely be over my head for sure", Avia remarked. "I'm a high school drop out you know...Kinda proud of it too".
"I came close to flunkin' math this year", said Richie. "I'd last as long as a snowball in Hell on that job".
"That's why school is a place to get an education, and not a place for being a clown", Lidia said to Richie.
"Gaston and you still haven't completed high school", Danny said to Richie. "You would do good to remember what Lidia just now told you when school starts again in a couple of weeks".
Of course, Gaston put his two cents in with, "Yea like, 361 divided by apple pie, to the 3rd horsepower, times S plus H and I and T...Yea dig it".
"Well, Danny. We appreciate the tip on the apprentice program, but it's not our scene", Biff said.
"Okay. It's up to you. Their offer still stands", Danny replied.
Biff then said to Danny and Lidia Otter, "We're outa here. See ya around".
The pit bull teens then headed north on Highway 285 to Santa Fe to do that laundromat burglary and vandal gig like the one they did in Albuquerque a week earlier.

How the Collindale Pitbull Brothers and Friends Left a Laundromat by moyomongoose

Convinced that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, Danny and Lidia called it a night and headed on home.

This is at the end of Part 43 of the story, beginning between pages 59 and 60.

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