Story about Dave (A) non police catagory. Background FYI: he grew up in a very small rural town in Eastern Washington, population 1000.
We were camping near a river and David, age 5 or 6 became fast friends with a boy who was from Canada...he spoke English with a thick
French accent...he was African-Canadian, very dark skinned. After about 3 days of knowing each other, they were sitting on a dock, fishing
when David turned, looked at him and asked seriously...."Are you black or just real, real tan?" The other boy replied without hesitation: "I'm real, real tan!"
Story (B) police catagory: David had some traffic infractions that Judge Shelton (yes, we now know him by name) had put on hold for 90 days.
The agreement was they would be on hold and go away if David didn't get into further trouble in those 90 days.....
So.....David got out of jail the day before he had to go to court for the 90 day review...either the judge's computer didn't work or David's guardian angel
was standing on the computer buttons..but Judge Shelton asked David: "Have you had any further run in with the law?" Without skipping a beat, David
said: "I have not had any further traffic violations" (which was true) David's dad Rick had to cough to not let out his chuckle! Judge S. wiped those past 'incidentals' off the record!
catagory A: This in one of my all time favorites, some adults don't think this is funny, but to them I say, you don't have the joy of David in your life....
David was 17 or so, we had eaten at 'From the Bayou' on Garfield...after dinner, on the ride home, David gave a beautiful pewter butterfly dish to his sister who loves
butterflies. It was the dish that the bill and after dinner mints were on...he had stolen it to give to his sister....I made my husband turn around and go back to the
restaurant. I was letting David go in by himself, then I caught up with him to go inside with him, and observe his confession, to make sure he followed through!
We caught the attention of our waitress, she came over to us and I looked at David, he was not saying anything, just holding out the butterfly dish to her....I said,
'My son has something he wants to tell you" To which David said, "My mom stole this and we made her bring it back!" That took my breath away, but also made me laugh
so hard and smile ear to ear! I looked up at David and said: "is there anything else your mom wants to say?" and David added: "She is really sorry and won't do it again"
Now that is funny! I am so glad God blessed me with this great son David.