Driving with Pete

What was I thinking I got a job in Pasadena (Fed Co) Pasadena!! How would I get there I didn’t have a car, was I crazy. I can’t remember if I asked or if Pete just offered … Well Pete would take me to work after school .. I enjoyed our drives I always looked forward to seeing his black Chevy come down the drive way .. and off we went all the way down Rosemead Blvd. We’d name the streets out load before we saw them. Pete was a carpenter for many years and had built homes just about everywhere, while driving in Pasadena he would often drive by a home that he helped build ( I was very impressed), then he’d go into a story about work. One weekend he even took us to Hacienda Heights to look model homes, his crew had built. Sometimes if I was lucky Pete would bring me back a rock from the job site, now not just any O’l rock it was a polished rock (maybe that’s why I still collect rocks till this day)

A year ago in March 2009 Pete was in surgery and we all gathered at Greater El Monte Hospital, we were all so afraid that we would lose him (I’ve never been so afraid in my life) Well as we were all gathered there crying in fear of not knowing what was going to happen, I told my story about my how he would drive me to work, well I found out that Pete took everyone to work. We all learned a lot about Pete and the conversation that he had with us all, Pete was magical he defiantly had a gift of attracting people to him, he was like watching a hummingbird.