The Alabama Boy Grows Up
While seeking permission for her hand in marriage, Mom's dad had this for Sheldon instead of a "yes."
What is a shotgun?
The 100 yard dash that got him into a fraternity
What is the event grandad ran at Alabama?
The number of grandchildren
What is 8?
What are the classes Sheldon taught at Goose Creek High School?
Cut off the heads of a large box of self striking matches and shove them in a tennis ball. Throw it against a wall.
What is the easiest way to make a bomb?
He was working this job at the Holiday Inn in Charleston when he met the woman who would become his wife.
What was Dad’s night-time jewelry salesman job?
The head covering worn by a coach with a 232-46-9 (.824) record
What is Bear Bryant’s Houndstooth Fedora?
At the end of a long driveway off of State Route 666
Where does Aunt Sandra live?
The number of fingertips lost to the saw.
What is 2?
This is said when you think you can take care of it yourself instead of taking it to the store resulting in white paint being cast all over the Hannahan house.
What is “I can just shake it.”?
Little Sheldon learned to drive in this vehicle
What is “Daddy’s Patrol Car?”
This class didn’t dampen his friendship with Joe Namath.
What is under water basket weaving?
It’s mean and white and screamed at you when you went to get chicken eggs.
What is Aunt Mona’s white peacock?
A box on the ceiling, sheet of plywood, and a hand crank to lower it from the ceiling
What is Robert’s model train table?
With a little red paint, string, rubberband, and some childhood ingenuity, these schoolyard creations sold for a nickel apiece.
What is popsicle stick dynamite?
This is the cause of his permanent dental bridge which he once pulled out during a dinner to pick his teeth and embarrassed Ryan in front of a potential girlfriend
What is a zipline accident?
Nicknamed “Tookah”, he ran off to be a gold-prospector in Alaska while Sheldon was in college
Who is great granddaddy Robert Edwin Etheridge?
An 8 foot high chair, a wood fired stove, and raccoon stew
What are things you would find at Uncle Noyes and Aunt Ethel’s house?
This fowl object got Sheldon featured in the Sumter Item newspaper
What are PVC birds?
With one loud pop, Sheldon saved the neighborhood from this deadly animal.
What is an inflatable rattlesnake?
This may be the one story that Sheldon never told but his daughter swears he did.
What is "Saving Helen Keller from a fire."?
“Roomie, you grab the legs and I’ll get the arms and let’s toss her in the trunk.”
What do you say when you need to get rid of a body?
Lemon-filled Krispie Kreme donuts
What breakfast treat did Mamaw Queenie keep above her fridge?
What happened while Sheldon was on his back under the old beach house and a small job got suddenly bigger?
What is nearly drowned?
Re-emerging 55+ years later, and once too scared to tell Mother, this blew up in little Sheldon’s hand to no one’s knowledge.
Bicycle spoke pipe bomb