Can you remember going to the corner store, with that dollar from Dad for the both of you, and you'd buy handfuls of candy with it. Buying that big green package full of 'Bottle Caps', and hoping there'd be more root beer flavours than orange?
Sitting in the car parked in the driveway, with the windows rolled down, pretending to be driving, chasing down criminals.
Swimming and barbeques in the green concrete pool, on those hot summer Sunday afternoons.
Waiting for that one Uncle at Christmas, then having to wait even longer, until you'd all had coffee and cake, then finally opening the gifts.
Getting up early on weekend mornings, sometimes before the t.v. stations were broadcasting anything, to watch cartoons (what time would that have had to have been... before 6:00?).
I remember those things, and more. Now I'm the Uncle that the kids are waiting for.
DB.
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So right. Ted's Variety is still there and still called Ted's Variety. But do you remember the old building that it used to be in, just around where the Gas Station is now? I remember Bottle Caps but I also remember Hubba Bubba. I don't even like gum anymore, nevermind huge wads of bubble gum.
And do you remember me playing in the car on a Sunday morning before church, I think the old brown Galaxy 500, and the shift lever didn't have a lock back then so I somehow pulled it into neutral and rolled onto the Wilson's front lawn?
And that green concrete pool! I don't know how that thing didn't cave in when it was empty because it was just concrete block walls with parging over them. I could see the water holding back the pressure from the ground around it but sometimes it was empty! I don't think an engineer would allow a retaining wall like that.
My kids get up early to watch TV too. Sometimes before 6. Do you remember some of those early shows? That Pinochio show?
Pinochio was a happy lad since the day he lost his strings. He could walk and talk and fly. "Do anything I try." But never never never never never never never never never could he ever tell a lie.
And yes, you make them wait. Whenever you're coming to town they wait, and wait, and wait. And what for? For you to sit on the couch and watch TV?
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