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GOOD COP
Tap, tap, tap! "Ungh?" Five thirty in the morning, Sun just up, cop at the window, Fate cries, Shannon's eyes as big as saucers, Matt and Joe awake. "You folks OK in there?" "Yea, we're fine, just got a flat, no jack." Joe grabs the handle, slides the door open, Cop says, "Ya'll got triple A" "No, man." "Well, I gotta jack." Fate says "Gotta pee!" So, while three men change the tire, Shannon and Fate look for a bush. After a Ding Dong breakfast, Joe invited 'em all to Sam's and headed to The Bean Pot for some coffee, thinkin' "I oughta be there by dark."
REUNION
The only sanity in Knoxville traffic is the cute college girls. Tops down, skirts up, nice legs, sometimes he didn't mind all that construction, some waved, some winked, and two of 'em even flashed. Joe thought, " I love ridin' a Harley" and "I like this town." On up '81 to 11, Elizabethton, and down to Roan Mountain. "Hey ol' man! you up there?"
Sam walks out on the porch, looks around... "Joe! You dawg!" Hey! Come on up!" Big hugs, pipes, and nut brown beer, a long soak in the crick, talkin', rememberin'.
NOT GUILTY
Joe says, "Reckon I can stay 'till Easter if you don't mind," and put Vol's wood spirit on a shelf. Sam humphed "it's your home, come and go as ya like, old friend." So Joe looked around, borrowed the truck, drove to town and bought about a mile of insulation to cover his rent, really pissed Sam off, said, "What ja do that for. you don't pay rent in your own home." "No but I gotta be here all winter; gets cold; I don't like it cold." Took 'em two days to get it all up, Sam says, "Not bad; needs paneling." They bought that at the saw mill, worked up a big thirst every day drank beer and bathed in the crick every night. Had it so good, they completely forgot to feel guilty.
Vol Lindsey volwizard@msn.com
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