Things can always be worse

Published 9:56 am Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Eric Richardson, determined to find a silver lining, put a happy dollar in the Dowagiac Rotary Club kitty April 8 for last week’s redestruction of his hangar at Municipal Airport.
It had previously been blown apart by high winds on June 19, 2009.

Richardson, of Decatur, explained he felt happy “because I was almost in it.”

“I bought a lawn tractor,” he recalled, “and it was after 10 o’clock when I got it back to Dowagiac. I had it on the trailer. I hadn’t eaten all day, so I stopped at McDonald’s. I was going to put it in the hangar, but I was tired, so I went home. It could have been worse.”