Overheard

My dad came home from World War II when I had just turned 2, and he ran a “fillin’” station across from our home in our little town of Pipe Creek, Texas, with only a few hundred people. Gas was 7 to 9 cents per gallon, soda was 5 cents for a bottle, and when you returned the bottle you got two cents back. Mom stayed home to raise me and do everything else she could. She raised t...