Too crazy for Charlie

“Back in the Sixties the thing to do was go out to California and join a hippie Commune. My Judo instructor's cousin did that. One day he gets a call at his Dojo in Houston from the leader of the Hippie commune who says ‘You have got to come out here and pick up your cousin - she is too crazy for us.’ My Sensei replied ‘Yeah, my cousin was always a few cards short of a full deck - OK I'll come pick her up.’ So he drives out to LA, spends a few days at the commune playing guitar with the hippies then drives his cousin back to Enid OK - drops her off - then drives back to Houston.

"You're probably thinking ‘You senile old fart, why did you tell us that pointless story?’

“Oh no, you don't understand: The hippie commune leader was Charles Manson, and the cousin was too crazy to be a member of the Manson family. This was about six weeks before the Tate - LaBianca murders. So up in Enid Oklahoma there is a little old lady who makes the members of the Manson Family look sane.”

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