[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Thanks...

By the way, when I was in the second grade we lived in Norfolk. Our neighbor was a Naval Commander. he gave my family the Grand Tour of his ship one day.

My father, jokester that he was, gave me very specific instructions.

So as we are touring the ship, gullible little me says:
"Mr. (to me he was a Mr., not a Commander) Neville, I like your boat!"

Can't remember his reaction, but our families were close, so imagine everyone got a ha-ha out of it.

After all of these years (I am 50 now) the only thing I remember about that day is how small the doorways were inside the ship. I remember thinking I would hate to have to duck everytime I walked through a doorway. It's funny what sticks in a kid's mind, I can see that doorway in my mind like it was yesterday.

[UsnDadof8]

That's a good one - I like your boat. That's like telling a submariner like myself "what a nice ship you have here"

It is strangeg what sticks in your mind. I took my kids on a tour of the submarine and all they can remember are the little little racks and the big torpedoes..

[elli1]

Neat story. What's funny is that (I think, least I did) kids remember things being bigger than they really are. I remember thinking of some houses in my small town as being ''mansions''...until after I moved away & returned to the town when I was older. Then I realized that they were just pretty ordinary houses. Makes me think those doors your remember must be reallllly little.