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<\/a><\/p>\nMy cousin<\/strong><\/span> David owned a GMC tractor-trailer, which he parked in the May Co. lot in University Heights.\u00a0 David may have been the only Jewish long-distance trucker in the Heights.\u00a0 Maybe the only long-distance trucker, period, in the Heights.<\/p>\n In 1975 David borrowed several thousand dollars from my father, Toby, for the truck.\u00a0 David had a contract with International Truck of Rock, Minnesota.<\/p>\n David moved to Pennsylvania and never repaid my dad.<\/p>\n In high<\/strong><\/span> school David had stolen hubcaps.\u00a0 He had been a Shaker Heights juvenile delinquent.<\/p>\n David even looked like James Dean. My cousin Danny once said, \u201cDavid\u2019s dad was the most handsome man you ever met.\u201d David\u2019s dad drifted around Cleveland, playing pool.\u00a0 David’s dad and mother divorced in the 1950s.<\/p>\n When David’s mother heard David hadn\u2019t repaid my dad, she made payments, but she never fully repaid the loan.<\/p>\n My father’s<\/strong><\/span> attitude was “win some, lose some.”\u00a0 Toby believed in lending money to family. My dad had borrowed from his Uncle Itchy to buy his first house.<\/p>\n Last year I called David\u2019s sister. This was a big deal; David and his sister were\u00a0 out of the cousins’ loop. David is now in his seventies and has had several heart attacks, his sister said.\u00a0 He is living in a hotel that his son runs in Florida.<\/p>\n No more<\/strong><\/span> truckin’.<\/p>\n No more David as family black sheep. Stolen hubcaps and an unpaid loan, is that the worst of it in my family?\u00a0 I think so.<\/p>\n Now, my wife has an estranged cousin who stole sterling silver . . . Stop<\/em>. — FITBIT<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n I became<\/strong><\/span> bionic.\u00a0 My daughter, Lucy, gave me a pedometer.<\/p>\n I can count my daily steps. I can even monitor my sleep patterns, but that’s too much data — even for a guy like me who likes data.<\/p>\n
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\n“David” is a pseudonym.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSIDE B
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