My playmate and cousin - Linda Thomas

Linda was my most constant playmate early on.. We lived in the same house or very close to one another until high school.

When we were 6&7 or so, we received identical large tricycles for Christmas. We could tell them apart because hers had a ‘thumb bell’ on the handle bar. She got the bell for her birthday on the 28th of December. {I always felt that her having a birthday so close to Christmas was a raw deal. Often she got the big gift for Christmas and the accessory for her birthday.}

Anyhow, both families lived on Idylwood at this time. Linda and I created a tricycle path on our back yard and chased one another around this path on our matching tricycles. Somehow we decided to put a 2 X4 across the path as a traffic control device. One day she was riding and I put the board down in front of her. She asked me to move the board and I refused. Linda, always one of direct action, picked up the board and laid me out with it. That reestablished our relationship, at least on the tricycle path.