-Christopher Bram
EMINENT OUTLAWS
The Beginnings – Part 27: TINGLES UP AND DOWN HER SPINE
May 12, 1983
I got word from work today that Barbara Reynolds made attempts to call me last night.
I had no sales today. It’s not a good day ‘every day’. The Assistant Manager, Kathy Dumbrowski, did observe a contact I had with a customer. In addition, the new supervisor observed a call I had (unbeknownst to me). Kathy’s observation was commendable (a good thing).
After work I drove through Shoreline Drive and happened to see Suzy Miller who waved me down while she was on her bike. I stopped.
She said, “How funny…I was on my way to visit you!”
“Well, continue riding to my place and then I’ll join you for a ride.”
When Suzy arrived I snapped a few photographs of her and hopped on my bike for a short ride with her. We cruised through part of Central Alameda. It was a fun ride.
Suzy said, “You know, Bonnie called me to see if we were coming to visit her in New York.”
“Well, I guess we’re not now…because of our shortage of funds.”
We talked about Chinese food, so I rode back to my place and hopped into my car and drove to Suzy’s apartment. We ate at some hole-in-the-wall Chinese joint called WAH LAH (or something like that). Then we walked around the South Shore Shopping Center for a while.
While at the Shopping Center I bought myself a pair of navy blue NIKE shorts. Suzy bought a bandana at MILLER’S OUTPOST. She tried on about five bathing suits as I sat around waiting. She came out to get my approval. While I was waiting at one point I bumped into an old flame from high-school. Her name is Christa Keller. Her sister, Patty, is my age. Patty had a crush on my during our high-school days. I never knew until later but I had a crush on Patty’s sister, Christa. I liked Christa—but once we were going steady for a bit it seemed to melt.
I think I dropped her from peer pressure by fellow pals (Sandy Renk, Bonni Jayne and Suzy Miller) who shouted, “She’s a FRESHMAN!”
I can still hear them asking me, “How could you go out with a freshman?”
I shrugged it off and they continued by saying, “You could do better than that, Mike!” I regretted that I ended my relationship with Christa. Now here we are. She’s twenty-one and I’m twenty-three. She gave me her telephone number. I also wrote up a contact card for her to reach me. I used a line from that card I bought and wrote: ‘You’re My Favorite Current Event.’
I hope the card will bring tingles up and down her spine (and elsewhere for that matter). Time will tell.
I wished my brother, Tony, a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today, of course. Today is his 25th Birthday.
I announced, “Hey, You’re a quarter of a century.”
“I can’t plan that far ahead. I don’t even buy green bananas.”
-Maggie Smith
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL,
2012 motion-picture
0 comments:
Post a Comment