five o’clock
I made all the stops I had planned and even drove around to the church because I wanted to look in at the parish house where some of my scouts -LRB- I was the assistant scoutmaster of Troop 6 , of Marlborough -RRB- were putting up decorations for the very first Fathers and Sons dinner ever given which we were to have on Washington 's birthday . That was in 1911 . As I was leaving I looked at my new wrist watch and discovered that it was a quarter of five . `` Just in time to catch dad and drive him home from the office , '' I said to myself , for I knew that he left the office of his big paper-mill down at the docks at five o'clock . I jumped into the car and bowled along down Spring Street and the Front Street hill and arrived at the mill office at exactly five . Dad was n't in sight so I decided to turn around and wait for him at the curb . That is how the trouble started .