Followup

This is old boys and I wanted to tell you some more about old Jimmy Van Der Stig because I don't want you to get the wrong idea about Jimmy Van Der Stig because he's a good old boy he's just as good as he can be and that's the reason I hated it's a man when he got hurt down here at the schoolhouse and you know I was I want to see him in the hospital and he's doing all right now but Jimmy just got he just got on the wrong track you know he just a he just a boy and and sometimes he acts like a boy and and he don't know how he's supposed to behave but he is a good boy you know he comes him and him and Lester comes down here all the time and plays horseshoes with me and and of course I always always beat him but they come down here but and they you know I them young boys and I don't know why they come down here to see me but I'm always glad to see them and of course we we have a coke and and pitch horseshoes and and I'll tell you what kind of a boy Jimmy Van Der Stig is and one time he come down here and and we pitched horseshoes and oh Jimmy Van Der Stig was just you know I don't know he was in well what he said he said he was in a zone is what he said and he you know he beat me down here fair and square in that horseshoe game he was hitting him rangers and and I you know I thought a ranger and Jimmy would top it every time and anyway he wound up meeting me and to show you what kind of a boy he is he said well mr. Porter he said he said I just I just got lucky he said and I said I don't know what you got Jimmy but all I can tell you is that you beat me fair and square and look didn't have nothing to do with it but that's the kind of boy Jimmy Van Der Stig is and so I didn't want you to get the wrong idea about Jimmy he's a good old boy and he is a cracker jack mechanic now I'll tell you Jimmy can fix anything he just he just I guess he just growed into it you know but he just can he can fix anything with a motor and he helps everybody around here I tell you what he done for me one time I had to grow to the stock barns and I was coming back home and I had to caves in the back of the truck and and boy that truck just quit on me I was about halfway home and that truck quit on me and I didn't know what I was gonna do had them caves in the back of the truck and I was thought I was just gonna have to lead them home and and leave the truck there well Jimmy Van Der Stig just happened to come by and he was driving fast like he always does and he passed me going about 80 miles an hour I guess it's how fast he was going he come whizzed by me I didn't know he saw me but anyway he circled around and come back and he said what is the trouble Mr. Porter and I told him that the truck wouldn't run I said it was running along and all of a sudden it just quit on me and he said well he would help me and so he drove on down there to Lester Clark's house and directly they come back with a tractor and they hooked on to that truck and told me on to the house and we unloaded the caves and I didn't think anything I think to him and I offered to pay him and he said no and of course you know Lester ain't got no money much and I'd offer to pay Lester and he said no he didn't want no money he said I'd always been you know good to them well I ain't never done much for him but anyway they wouldn't take any money and so I didn't think anymore about it except I was trying to think how I was going to get my truck fixed and about two days later Jimmy Van Der Stig come down to the house and he had a fuel pump and he gone all the way to Memphis to get it well I forgot to tell you when he when we unloaded him caves so he looked at the car at the truck I mean and he saw he said it was a fuel pump he said I needed a new one and so I asked him at that time where I would get a new one and he said well probably Memphis is where you got to go to get it well I was studying about like I say how I was going to get the truck fixed and and Jimmy Van Der Stig come down to the house and had a brand new fuel pump with it and he put that fuel pump on that truck it took him oh I don't know it didn't take him that long but about an hour I guess to put that fuel pump on that truck and we started up and she run just like a lawn mower just just like a sewing machine and so he handed me the receipt for the fuel pump and it was $69 and and I said well Jimmy I'm gonna pay for the fuel pump but I want to pay you for your trouble and he said oh no he said I don't want no money just you know you pay me for the fuel pump and I said well Jimmy you had to go all the way to Memphis to get that fuel pump I said let me just pay you at least pay you for your gas and he said no he didn't want nothing he just said just pay him for the fuel pump so I tried my best to talk to him about letting me pay him and he said no he didn't want no money so I give him the $69 and he went on off and and you know that that just shows you what kind of a boy Jimmy Van Der Stig is and so I just wanted to let you know because I thought maybe I might have given you the wrong idea when I was talking about him up there at the school house he didn't mean no arm up there he just cutting up like all boys do so anyway I just wanted to clear up any misunderstanding that I might have caused about Jimmy Van Der Stig I'll tell you a little bit another story about old Jimmy Van Der Stig and Lester they got into some trouble with the police down here and it was it was kind of funny you know what boys will do but you know I told you that old Jimmy Van Der Stig is a cracker Jack mechanic and he is and he's got a car down here that I don't know you know I couldn't fix a tricycle but Jimmy has got this car that he has souped up and he's got that car where it will really I mean you he got me in there one time and stomped down on that and I well I'll fell back up against the back of the seat and I couldn't I couldn't even straighten up it had me locked back at the back of the seat it was going fast you know that I couldn't even I couldn't even get my breath and I said Jimmy Van Der Stig slowed this thing down and let me out I don't want to drive no situation as this and he laughed you know and he stopped the car and I got out he was gonna carry me back to the house and I said no I walk back to the house I don't want to ride with you no more of course he told me he would said he would slow up going back to the house but I said no I'm just gonna walk on back and I wasn't mad at him I just scared me more anything else but anyway what I started out to tell you was that Jimmy's got this souped up car and he he was you know Lester's his only buddy down here they're about the only two grown boys that are down here and Lester well I I don't mean no harm but he ain't quite right and that's all I can say but he Jimmy got the help in him on his card showing Lester a thing or two and and Lester fixed him up a car too you know that but he you know Lester just half does whatever he does and so he didn't hook the brake lights or the tail lights up at all he was just he said well you don't I don't know what he said but he I guess he was thinking that you don't really need no tail lights you know down here in this country and no brake lights and he didn't hook him up and he was driving along and got out here pretty close to the freeway and the police stopped him and they they saw it you didn't have no tail lights and he didn't have no brake lights well they they stopped him and I think they was just going to tell him you know to hook him up but they they got to check and then they found out that his driver's license had been expended and then he didn't have no his tags was out of date on his car so they were going to take him to jail and they had him in the car and was going to haul him off to jail and Jimmy Vanderstig drove by and seen it and so he rode down his winders and stuck his head out the window and hovered fuzz fuzz fuzz and then he tromped down on that gas and he throwed gravel and rocks all over that police car and of course they they got after him well Lester you know had done got out of the car by then and they got out they took after Jimmy Jimmy took out down their freeway and I guess he was going over a hundred mile an hour and they couldn't catch him I mean he outrun the police and they radioed ahead for them to stop him when he got to the next exit down there which was Carlisle and they they radioed ahead for them Carlisle policemen to stop Jimmy Vanderstig well then policemen they just pulled out to the edge of the exit and they were going to stop him when he come by well Jimmy didn't stop I mean he just kept right on going and left him I don't know why they didn't you know block the road or I do something to stop him because all they done was they just stayed up there at the exit and Jimmy Vanderstig just went by them well they let radio ahead from the low-noke policemen to stop him and of course the low-noke policemen they had more sense than Carlisle policemen did so what they done was they pulled out pulled out down the road and they started driving you know about 30 miles an hour and when Jimmy come up behind him see he had to slow down because he would have run over him if he hadn't and then all the other policemen was behind him so you see he was between he was between him he was between Carlisle policemen behind him and a low-noke policeman ahead of him and so anyway they took him back to jail and put Jimmy Vanderstig in jail down there this little jailhouse up here is where they where they took him and you know Lester Clark went down there and told his daddy what had happened and his daddy wouldn't bail him out of jail he said well he ought to have better sense than to do that well you know I I thought Jimmy Vanderstig had better sense than that myself but I guess you know Lester was his buddy and he was trying to help him you'll get away well anyway Lester Clark come down here and he said you know Jimmy Vanderstig's in jail and I said well Lester what did he do and he told me and I said well Lester I hate it worse way but I said I ain't gonna bail Jimmy Vanderstig out of jail and he said well he didn't want me to bail him out he said he had some Lester handed some chickens and he asked me did I want to buy some chickens he had oh well I guess about a hundred you know chicken ducks and and chickens and whatever down here and he was gonna sell him to me and I said well yeah if if you want to sell him I said I can use them and I said I'll pay you what they were I ain't gonna try to take advantage of you so I paid him what the what the chickens was worth and Lester Clark went down to the jail now you would thought I you know I told you when I started this at Lester ain't quite right and he ain't and he went down to the jail know why he didn't give that money to somebody and say go down there and bail Jimmy Vanderstig out of jail I don't know see he could have told me I would have gone down there and took his money I wouldn't have bailed Jimmy out myself but I would have took Lester's money and gone down there and bailed him out of jail but Lester didn't knew that he he went down there his self and paid Jimmy Vanderstig's bail and Jimmy Vanderstig come out and just you know smiling and and him and Lester started off you know and they was going on away from that jail you know gonna leave Jimmy said he was glad to get away from this place and they got to the door and the the sheriff said hold on a minute Lester and Lester turned around and he said you know we caught you and you didn't have no tags on you car and your driver's license was expended and they said Jimmy Vanderstig can go on home because you bailed him out but you're gonna have to come to jail yourself so what happened was that Jimmy Vanderstig got to go home and Lester spent seven days in jail and they he's lucky they didn't give him more than that because but they know about Lester and they know you know how he is so they just let him stay in jail seven days and then they turned him out and Jimmy Vanderstig was trying to raise money to get him out of jail but anyway they turned him out and so I just thought that was funny and I'm I don't know you know why them boys didn't know any better than to do what they done but Jimmy was laughing about it and he was telling everybody up here how he had outrun the police and and he did I mean he outrun the the hazing police and the Carlisle police too couldn't of him keep up with him so he was bragging about that and laughing and he got he got a big kick out of it and I think Lester Park got a big kick out of it too except for the seven days in jail I don't think he got much of a kick out of that