The Privy Report 2
Copyright© 2026 by Old Grey Duck
Chapter 26
A police officer is out on patrol late one Friday night. In the course of his travels, he drives down a secluded lovers lane. Sure enough, there is a car parked off the the side. The cruiser stops alongside the car and the officer gets out. The interior light of the car is on and when the officer looks in, he sees a young man in the front seat playing a game on his phone. There is also a pretty girl sitting in the back seat, reading a magazine.
Confused, the officer asks the young man for his license. It comes back clear. “Son? Why are you parked up here?”
“We’re just waiting.”
“Waiting? For what?”
The young man smiles and looks down at the phone in his hands. “In about 20 minutes, guess who turns eighteen?”
True Story
One evening, I was participating in a favorite activity. “Babysitting” the grandkids. We were watching reruns of the old series ‘Star Trek – Enterprise’ and the boy thought a moment. “Dad was in the Navy, right?” I said that yes, that was correct. “Did he serve on the Enterprise?” No, he was stationed on a guided missile cruiser. But I had to smile as an old memory surfaced in my head.
From the time he was born and came home, to around the time he was 4 years old, I think he only slept 45 minutes a night. The boy NEVER slept! So my late wife and I would take turns staying up with him as we dozed on the sofa. Don’t judge me, but we usually had the TV turned on and the station played a lot of reruns. Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, and Star Trek (TOS). In fact, one of his first words was “Space.” (Thank you, William Shatner!) We lived in Virginia near several military bases and had many friends in the service. (And before anyone asks, hearing loss prevented me from enlisting. I was listed as ‘PPR’ or Permanent Physical Rejection.)
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