John Wing Platt:  

Life Writing is not a strong point for me so I just have to get a few words on paper or computer before I am comfortable. While I was waiting for something to happen thoughts started coming to me. First I should cover my pre-school years. That would be from 1946 until 1951 a great time for me. I got to spend a lot of time with Mom "creating things". Like the tricycle with a large Maxwell House coffee can tied on the rear end. Mom put my brother in charge of the water hose (gasoline station attendant). He filled up the can for me, I paid with monopoly money and was on my way. Mom had put a pin hole in the coffee can so after several spins around the driveway I was back at the station to fill'r up. I was also king of the road when Dad took me to work. I rode shotgun while Dad drove from one farm to the next picking up milk cans and taking them to the dairy. It was hard work trying to move a full milk can (as if I could). In Skaneateles Falls where we lived during those "preschool years" we had great neighbors. Arm Sagan ran a gas station a log cabin gas station right next door to our house . Arm was a prize fighter when he was younger and was never at a loss for words. One day I was playing skin the cat on his gas station sign poles and he as me i...Expand for more