The Kari-Keen Man ~
After lunch we headed back to get my bags out of the Luscombe Silvaire from where it was tied down in the grass along the runway, and we stopped to talk to the man with the pretty little Kari-Keen parasol–type single seat monoplane, who I’d seen arguing with Doug Combs at Oshkosh a few days ago.
The Kari-Keen man was on his way west through Minnesota and North Dakota, but there was barely enough room for himself in his tiny plane, so I didn’t have to bother asking, and if it had been a two-seater, I wouldn’t have taken a ride from him even if he had offered me one.
There were four other people standing around his aeroplane when we walked up to admire it and they were talking about some of the winning planes at Oshkosh. Not realizing that I had seen his heated argument over Doug's use of slotted screws on his Luscombe Phantom restoration, the Kari-Keen man started bad-mouthing Doug with these guys. In Doug's absence, I entered the conversation and defended his choice. This greatly upset Kari-Keen.
"Why you're just a no-nothing little brat girl and what in the hell do you know about airplanes!?" Kari-Keen said to me, snidely.
