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world wide wally

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18. I got to flip off Nixon once

Reply to PCIntern (Reply #12)

Sun Jan 25, 2015, 01:05 PM

Jan 2015

I was a cab driver in Chicago and his helicopter landed at Miegs Field by the lakefront. I had taken a couple of his "groupies" there to greet him. I stayed there to wait for a fare back to downtown and Nixons motorcade drove by. He was waving to all of his adoring fans from the back seat of his limo and as he looked right at me. My moment in the. sun came and my middle finger went up. (Almost like a reflex action). Then I got the a patented scowl. I just wish I had a camera at that moment. That was a moment I will always cherish.

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