Found online:
Boy's pancake breakfast delayed the end of WWII
Apparently, the youngster entrusted with delivering a message to President Truman concerning the Japanese surrender dallied on the way to carry out his assignment. As the article notes:
Unaware of his cargo's import, the boy, in cavalier teenage fashion,
put work on hold to eat pancakes at a diner, hang out with his friends
and flirt with waitresses. Later, he left his pancakes to complete the job only to be pulled
over en route to the White House by a police officer, who berated the
boy for making an illegal U-turn.
It would never happen these days, of course, with all the high tech accoutrements of civilized living.
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