subject: How Listening To Cb Radio Can Completely Change Your Life [print this page] In the late 1960's and early 70's CB radio became really popular in the UK.Distances between one point and another are not long compared to that of the USA, but the road can still be a lonely one. CB Radio was considered great fun, the sillier the name or handle people chose the better.
One young man who enjoyed it particularly was'Charlie K'.
Charliecame home from the University for the long vacation and his father, who was a wealthy haulier insisted that as their business involved trucks Charlie should gain his license. This he did and set off soon after that on his first trip.
The Yorkshire Moors are a delightful place in the daylight but at night take on a whole new perspective; dark, lonely and gloomily forbidding. Charlie was therefore hoping to reach civilization before dark.
He switched on the radio and tuned it to the usual CB channel when to his surprise a child's voice said,' Breaker, Breaker, is there anybody there, come back truckers and talk to White Rabbit'. Charlie answered with 'You've got it White Rabbit', there was a silence and then the voice said, 'Who have I got on the other end'? after Charlie gave him his 'handle' the little boy began to tell him a story that was literally going to change his life.
'White Rabbit' had promised his Mum that he wouldn't bother the truckers but he was lonely and wanted company. He wascrippled and had never walked, so talking was all he could do.Charlie said that he was happy to talk for as long as 'White Rabbit' was in range.
The boy then told him that this had been his Dad's radio but he presumed it was his now because his Dad had been killed in an accident a month before. His parents had been saving to take him to America for an operation that they hoped would allow him to walk but now that his Mum had to go out to work he didn't think that would happen. Although she still said she would make it all right, he heard her crying in the night.
The channel was silent except for 'White Rabbit' and himself which Charlie thought was peculiar. When the boy came back to say that the thing he wanted most in the world was to ride in an 18 wheeler again, Charlie had a lump in his throat.
Then the voice came back to say he was going to back out and if Charlie would give him a shout when was passing anytime he would be happy to come back to him. 'Before you 10-10 what's your home 20 little friend',Charlie asked. He got the address, turned the truck, the load could wait and as he turned into the boys road, got the shock of his life.
It was full of 18 wheelers, every trucker for miles around had been listening and each driver was taking turns to carry him into their truck and taking him around the block. He was having a ball. Of course Charlie took his turn and when it was time to go they took a collection, which didn't stop there.
When Charlie reached the moors again he had tears in his eyes and then his radio burst into life, 'Breaker ? just a word of thanks from White Rabbits Mum. We wish everyone of you a special prayer because you made my little boy so happy. May God ride with you all, 10-4 and Goodnight'.
The truckers kept collecting and two years later White Rabbit walked out of an American clinic all by himself.
He is now a business man in London and Charlie went back to university, changed courses and is now an eminent pediatric surgeon who has been knighted by the Queen.
