At 08:29 AM 5/28/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:

>> I like KKs if they're right off the conveyor, but otherwise, not so 
>> much...

Krispy Kreme.  Oh, I have to tell the tale of Handsome Henry.

Horace Henry LePrell*, lieutenant of the Jacksonville Police Department was
also a warrant officer in my Coast Guard Reserve unit.

You wanna talk about cops and doughnuts!  If you saw his patrol car -- he
was uniform, and drove a marked unit -- you'd die laughing.  The back seat
was always piled high with boxes and boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

He would go to the Krispy Kreme shop on his beat and they would give him
all the doughnuts they hadn't sold that day and would otherwise have to
destroy.  He would take them to the city rescue mission and give them to
the staff there to serve with breakfast in the morning.  Several boxes,
however, always got diverted to Coast Guard Reserve Unit MSO Jacksonville
for weekend drills.

We came to call them "Horace LePrell Fat Pills," and that's what Keys and I
still call them.

Veloci--he was a good guy--raptor

*  I asked him once what "H. H." stood for on his service record.  He
replied with a big smile, "Handsome Henry."


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