By Glynis Crawford Smith
The Highlander
No one seemed to notice a lone 73-year-old lady who waited quietly in the room full of men signing up for races in the 2016 Marble Falls Adult Soap Box Derby.
“Hello, I'm Alice Gardiner and I'll be racing against you in the derby,” she said, finally.
The others seemed unimpressed and, after a few courteous greetings, returned to conversations. That is, until her next words: “Hey guys, the builder of my soap box is sitting over there and he was the original engineer who developed the Corvette.”