{"id":258,"date":"2024-02-05T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:13:14","slug":"shipwreck-nj-seventh-daily-dose-of-what-i-did-with-my-college-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Shipwreck, NJ [seventh daily dose of What I Did with my College Education]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, one day, a college buddy calls up and says he and his bride are driving East to visit.  \u201cGreat!\u201d I say, but when they arrive I\u2019m caught in a fix because that night two runaway 17 year-old girls from Dauphne, Alabama are crashing at my place.  I had to entertain Rocky and his bride and I had to safeguard two kids.  That night we would have to all crash at my place, some on air mattresses, some just on the floor.  But I announced a better plan:  It\u2019s Friday night; No work tomorrow; Let\u2019s get in Rocky\u2019s car and head down the Jersey Shore for the weekend and rent a motel room.<\/p>\n

Entertaining Rocky included buying some beer.  Well, I got lost trying to find Ship Bottom.  Worse, while we\u2019re lost driving down U.S. 9, Rocky\u2019s car breaks down.  The first car that pulled over wasn\u2019t much help \u2013 a station wagon filled with an immigrant family from New York, also lost.  The second car was a police car.  \u201cOh, Oh; we\u2019ve got beer; there are two underage missing persons in the car; this could be big trouble.\u201d  But Nancy to the rescue!  Nancy, Rocky\u2019s bride, was all straight A\u2019s in college and pretty midwesternish straight-laced generally.  She gets out of the car, even before the cop gets out of his car (you could do that in those days), and tells the cop \u2013 almost exactly \u2013 what\u2019s happening.  The cop never looks into the car, never checks anyone\u2019s IDs, and Nancy comes back announcing that the cop was extremely helpful, knew of a car repair place just across the street from a beach-front motel in Ship Bottom, and had used his police radio to call a tow for us.  Not Lost Anymore.<\/p>\n

\"Minnesota<\/a>

Minnesota Slim looks much better<\/p><\/div>\n

Turned out to be a totally rainy weekend.  We shot a lot of pool.  Enough that Nancy earned the moniker \u201cMinnesota Slim\u201d with the locals.  On the way home, in our repaired car, we nicknamed the town \u201cShipwreck,\u201d and I got us into Philly on the back streets.  Ended up on Rising Sun Avenue.  And that\u2019s how everything turned out.  The two girls reconnected with their parents, who were so grateful that I was invited to stop in the next time I was passing through Dauphne.   All these travels and adventures, Granby Colorado, Miami Beach Florida, Berkeley California, Voyage House and Shipwreck New Jersey, led to my introducing the Youth Works legislation once I got elected to the Minnesota Legislature, but again that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n

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