Doug was the long-time American Sign & Indicator representative at Miami International Airport, responsible for keeping our Flight Information Display System signs (FIDS) operational. He, and Paul Keener, the electrician, were hired by the airport a few years later. I was responsible for building the flight data base on the DEC computers that drove the system and the airport sent Doug and me to a DEC school in Denver to learn the system better. We flew out early in the morning and spent most of the day at Pike's Peak the day before classes started.

Doug was terrified when I drove to the top of Pike's Peak and refused to ride down unless he drove. We didn't get a quarter mile down when the glass in my window fell down inside the door so he stopped a ways down to try and get it back up. It was windy and dusty at the time and we, and the entire car interior, were covered in dirt by the time we got back down. We drove the Olds 98 back to the rental car dealer at Stapleton Airport in Denver to exchange it.