Monday, May 6, 2019

Today (And 51 Years Ago Today) I Am / Was Being EXTRA-Crazy!!!

Today, I'm feeling crazy enough to believe that Prince Harry and his Duchess, Meghan, just actually MIGHT decide to name their new little bundle-of-joy Larry.  Anyway, even if they don't decide to do this, they're DEFINITELY going to know that this even-cuter-than-a-rubber-duckie Anderson, Indiana icon shares the planet with them before the day is over.

This blog-entry is the sequel to the LAST one I wrote.

So -- as I've mentioned in the embedded Facebook post below -- I'm being extra-crazy on May 6, 2019.



However, I was DEFINITELY being crazy 51 years ago today (May 6, 1968) -- not to mention being at least a tad foolish as well.

Anyway, this seems as good of a time as any to include this story in my memoirs, so it should be completely written before the day is over, so check over there when you find the time throughout the day and see if it's up yet...

Dressed To Impress Tom Jones (Or Something Like That)

Hey, Meghan & Harry! How About Larry!?!




Meet Larry Eugene Van Ness of Anderson, Indiana!!!

He is, by now, less than 473,695 away from counting his 20,000,000th tab for the Ronald McDonald House in Indianapolis, Indiana.

He's the Tab King, a real Prince of a guy and is actually a shirt-tail cousin of The Royal Family.

Here's some more about him:



Here's a video that was made of him back in November of 2017 that will simply melt your heart!!!


Even if you don't decide to name your new little Prince after him, I hope you'll still send some tabs from your side of The Pond to ours (Be sure to use sufficient postage...).

Here's the main address for mailing things to him (e.g. tabs; BoxTops For Education; labels from Campbell's Soup and other Campbell's canned goods that are part of the campaign to fight child hunger; and cards/letters.  He was born on February 17, 1947.):

Larry Van Ness
c/o Old National Bank
1501 North Broadway
Anderson
Indiana
46012
USA


One more bit of trivia...One of Larry's many buddies at City Of Anderson Transit System (C.A.T.S.)  just happens to be a bus driver named Harry who's very tall and a local basketball legend.  And we even have another one-of-a-kind guy driving a bus whose name is Charles.

That's all for now except to close with a timer about an event that will be happening over your way in a little over two years from now:  (August 7, 2021).

Prince LARRY (or whatever you decide to name him) will be a little over two years old by then.