Lily's Favorite Story

This is Lily Munster, and I think my favorite Munster story concerns the time Herman bought himself a two-way short-way radio. Oh, he just loved it. He got so excited, trying to talk to other him, operators, and ships at sea.

Herman even had the nerve to sing on his radio. And another ham operator in Australia cut him off right in the middle of my mother's eyes. Well, everything was fine until two boys in the neighborhood, Roger and Walt, got a two-way walkie-talkie and began to play a game, pretending they were flying saucer pilots talking to

their home base on Mars. Now when Herman tuned in on the conversation between these two boys, he believed every word they said. He thought they were real Martians. Herman cut in, telling them that he was talking from planet Earth.

Of course the space men Roger and Walt thought Herman was some other boy with a walkie-talkie joining in the game. They told Herman they had to return to Mars but said they would contact planet Earth again tomorrow at the same time.

Well, Herman is such a trusting soul. He was sure he'd been talking to actual space men. I told him it couldn't be true. But he wouldn't listen to me. The next day Herman got even more excited when the two space men told him that they had made an actual landing on the planet Earth with their flying saucer. Herman wanted to contact

the Air Force immediately and report an unidentified flying object, but Grandpa said they'd have to have some real evidence first. Well, Grandpa got out his old radio direction finder from the laboratory, and he and Herman went out that night trying to track down the Space Men's Ship. That direction finder led them all over town, and finally it led them to