One day Terry pulled up in our driveway. He had a light blue Buick Skylark
back then. I went out to meet him and saw that he had a German Shepherd mix
dog in the back seat. It was about the rattiest looking stray dog I had
ever seen. He asked me if I wanted to go for a ride. I told him that I
didn't want to get in the same car with that nasty looking dog.
It turned out that it was a stray dog he had picked up beside the road
somewhere. He reminded me that it was Brenda's (Arrington) birthday and he
was going to give the dog to her as her birthday present. It was the
craziest thing I had ever heard, so naturally I jumped right in the car to
go with him.
We drove over to Brenda's house and went to the door. Terry said he had a
gift for her birthday, but she had to come out to the car to get it. When
we got to the car he let that awful looking dog out and told Brenda she
needed to give it a bath, feed it, and get it's shots. She couldn't believe
it, but Terry acted like he was dead serious about expecting her to take
that dog and care for it. Her parents had to come out and say "absolutely
not" before he put it back in the car and we drove off. I guess he took it
back where he found it and let it go again. That was one of the funniest
adventures we ever had together.