[JWBear]

Part three:

Dating improved with George working. We were able to do more things like a movie once in awhile, a hot pie (pizza to you) or a pig sandwich (pork barbecued on the premises served on a roll with a delicious sauce). I can still taste them.
We were also able to venture farther, on day trips. Rochester to see the Lilacs, A beach at Lake Erie, and even into Canada once when my sister was at the Thousand Islands with a friends family, of course we always had a carload of friends along including his sister and one of mine.

I must tell you about the car George and his friend acquired. They turned up one day with a very old clunker painted red, white and blue. You never knew if you were going to get where you wanted to go, or if you were going to get back. I've spent a lot of time by the side of the road while they fixed a flat tire. It lasted just long enough, until they could afford a newer, old car.

Of course Sunday nights were for Epworth League (church youth group). George discovered if he wanted to see me then, he would have to go to their meetings.

During the winter months he would come to my house in the evenings and we would play Monopoly. I worried about him driving home, as he had to go up a steep dirt road that was not heavily traveled (Twist Run Road) I could see the top of that hill from my house so he would blink his lights when he reached the top so I would know he had made it safely.

On December 7th we were in the car either heading for a movie or just got out and heading home, when over the car radio we heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. At that point our world, as we knew it, was turned upside down.