On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 6:24:45 PM UTC-4, Karl Striedieck wrote:
Too many Charlie stories to pick one - but.

One night there was window rattling crash from upstairs, and when asked about it Charlie said he fell out of bed.

Or one of the numerous glider delivery sagas when he was passing Flagstaff mid- winter and felt sorry for a freezing hitchhiker. Turned out the guy was drunk so Charlie put him in the front of the trailer.

Speaking of his gift with humans, a favorite kid-on-the-road story was the year he took a lad who had a learning disability. At some point the boy found himself in a game of Scrabble with other young kids, and was the brunt of ridicule for a word choice. When they left for the motel Charlie took the Scrabble game and said to the lad "We'll play some more Scrabble and you can spell the words anyway you want."

My favorite kid on the road story was a lesson on how to spend money. Kids with Charlie had their own food money from parents. The expectation was this could be a learning experience.
Early on a trip Charlie and his young sidekick stopped and convenience store for food and other needs. This was the first real experience for this young kid with having money. He could not resist and spent all his ration of money on fire works.
Later that night the young man came to Charlie and said "I'm hungry".
Charlie's response was "why don't you eat some of those fire works"
Big lesson learned.
He was a classic.
UH