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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
The Warner Robins Branch of the American Association of University Women held the
first Celebrity Read of the school year at Miller Elementary School recently. Volunteers
from the community and RAFB were invited to participate, and members of AAUW,
under the leadership of Becky Yeatman, coordinated the event with the staff of the
school.
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Contributed
Sgt. Nicole Porcher listens to questions from the children.
On pocket knives and superstitions in the racing world
I picked the package up
from the porch floor
where the delivery
guy had left it and read
the mailing label that said
RCR Racing, Welcome, NC. I
smiled and hurried inside to
tear it open.
For 20 years, Richard
Childress, he of NASCAR
fame and six championships
won with Dale Earnhardt,
has been a dear and close
friend. I cut open the box
then pulled out the two
small black boxes, opened
them and laughed. Pocket
knives. It is a long standing
joke between Childress and
me that all men should carry
a pocket knife.
“Men who carry pocket
knives are the sexiest men,”
I have long proclaimed.
Childress, like my daddy, is
never without one shoved
deep into his right-hand
pants pocket.
One knife commemo
rated the 30th anniversary
of RCR Racing while the
other immediately became
my third favorite possession
ranking only behind daddy’s
worn Scofield Bible and
Mama’s old pin cushion.
On the top of the sec
ond box, Childress had
inscribed a message to me.
Sentimentally, my eyes
watered as I gingerly turned
over the collector’s pocket
knife that paid tribute to
the 1998 Daytona 500, the
only one that Childress and
Earnhardt won together.
I opened the card he had
sent and skimmed over his
handwritten words. It con
cluded by saying, “You owe
me two pennies. It’s bad luck
to give a knife to a friend. It
cuts the friendship.”
Yes, Richard Childress is
monumentally superstitious.
He is, after all, a Southerner.
And a racer. Which gives him
twice the number of super
stitious bones as the nor
mal Southerner. Earnhardt
was like that, too. He always
walked out the same door he
walked in. No exceptions.
And neither Earnhardt or
Childress would ever lay a
hand on a fifty dollar bill.
Bad luck, you know. One
race day I watched as they
were getting up the weekly
pool for the race - S2OO a
draw - and someone hand
ed Childress a fifty-dollar
bill. You would have thought
it was a rattlesnake. He
jumped back, threw it down
then ran away from it, trying
to escape its deathly bite.
Somehow, long ago, it got
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a race, speaking to Terry
Labonte, who, wordlessly,
turned around and walked
the other way.
Dumbfounded at what
seemed so rude, I stared
as he stalked off. Larry
Mcßeynolds, then a crew
chief, threw back his head
and laughed. “You’ve got on
green,” he explained, point
ing my shirt. “Bad luck to
speak to anyone on race day
wearing green.”
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Darrell Waltrip was the
first to drive a green race
car, sponsored by Gatorade,
to victory lane. “David
Pearson used to refuse to
park by me in the garage,”
DW explained. “One day, his
team parked his car by mine
and he came over and threw
a fit. They had to move all
the way to the other side of
the garage.”
Count on Darrell, though,
to reason it out. “I went up
to him and said, ‘Hey David,
how much money you got
in your pocket?’ He pulled
out a big wad of money and
I said, ‘Well, that’s green.
What’s the difference in
carrying green money and
parking next to a green
race car?”’ Pearson, whose
temper could ignite quicker
than logs doused in gasoline,
angrily spat out his response
started
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the race
teams that
the color
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bad luck.
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then stomped off.
A lot of these supersti
tions have faded away from
the sport, though. Outsiders
to the Southern way of
thinking have invaded the
sport and they are much too
high-brow for such practical
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thinking.
Still, my ol’ buddy feels
that way and knowing, too,
how strongly he feels about
the number 3, I took out
a note card, taped three
pennies to it and mailed it
back.
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