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Grover Click presently lives in London. He is semi retired. He works as a part time accountant, doing only about half the work that he formerly did. In accounting, this, of course, means that he only takes assignments where he does either debits or credits but not both. In addition, Grover is worked, along with Clive Clifton-Clappen and Lord Cranbury, on setting up the Royal Society of Dull Men in the U.K. Grover had a modest beginning – he was born in Modesto, California. Grover remembers Modesto fondly, especially its motto, “Water, Wealth – Contentment, Health.” For Grover, that says it all. When he was five, Grover moved with his parents to Chappell Nebraska, a small town in the western part of the state, between Lodgepole and Ogalalla, near the Colorado border. Grover was a child prodigy. In accounting. He went to the University of Colorado where he majored in accounting. Many of his classmates from high school went to the University of Nebraska. But Grover wanted to be closer to home. Also, from an early age, he wanted to be near mountains. When he was growing up, he often heard his father, Elmo, exclaim, when looking at a beautiful view, that it was “wilder than mountain scenery.” Grover was one of the original members of the DMC. He was present at its beginning, sitting around the long bar at the New York Athletic Club, reading The Winged Foot, the club’s monthly magazine. He and some of his friends were reading the articles about the “clubs-within-the-club” like the Tennis Club, Squash Club, and Running Club. They remarked that they did not do those exciting things. “We’re dull,” said Grover. “Let’s form the Dull Men’s Club.” That was the start. Grover became an assistant vice president, which was (and still is) the DMC’s highest office. In 1990, Grover moved to Washington DC, where he enjoyed the many monuments, the government civil servants, and his favorite airport, Dulles. It was at Dulles where Grover took up his interest in luggage carousels. Grover likes living in London. He is learning how to queue, how to drive on the other side of the road, and particularly enjoys the crosswalks. He likes the feeling of power he gets when stepping in to a crosswalk, watching cars stop for him. His weekend hobby now is walking all around London, his goal is to, eventually, walk across every crosswalk in London. He is taking pictures of many of them.
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