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$$ .d""b. .d""b. HOE E'ZINE #1029
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ss$$ "Old Crow"
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ by Kreid
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ 02/27/00
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$$ $$ "TssT" "TssT"
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19-year old boy walks into liquor store. must dig through dense
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highly-priced glass bottles in order to find sparse, low-priced, buried
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plastic bottles.
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a $16 handle of old crow (straight kentucky bourbon) is a diamond
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in this stinking bog of expensive booze. to the counter.
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a woman. "are you 21?" "yes."
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"can i see some I.D.?" "sure."
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"you look about 17 to me." "babyface. here you go."
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"well, that's you there," she mumbled. "utah? i'm from maine."
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"1978? then you must be 22." "no, i'm 21, i turn 22 in the fall."
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"this I.D. says you're 22." it didn't. "i'm telling you, i'm 21."
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"how did you get here, did you walk or something?" "i walked from
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mobil. my friend is getting gas."
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"he didn't want to come in here, so he's not a bad boy?" WHAT THE
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FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? "he's getting gas right now."
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"you a student?" "yes, i go to hartwick."
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"hartwick boys are good boys usually." i need a drink. "i'm a
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good boy."
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"okay, that's $16.82, now don't misbehave!" "i don't misbehave.
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here. thanks." i leave and walk back to mobil, joining my friends in
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their car as they pull out of the station.
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we head to the pharmacy and i carry out 4 six-packs of sierra
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nevada pale ale for chris. it's his birthday. i explain all of this to
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the cashier while i wait for the manager to come check on my out-of-state
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I.D.
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i apologize to the people behind me in line. "every day i have to
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put up with this," i lie.
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back to my room to watch television. they all get drunk. i
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wallpaper part of my room with the pretty lime-green sierra nevada boxes.
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we watch three episodes of saturday night live. this has to be chris's
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worst birthday ever. he continues to supply his broke, pathetic friends
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with pot. i make sure to compliment him on it.
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they leave for the bar at 11:00. i can't afford to go to the bar
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tonight. i can't afford other people.
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i can afford to drink old crow alone. at least i can turn off the
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television now that i'm no longer "entertaining" people.
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i wake feeling like a million bucks. also feeling depressed and
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alone. my roommate is dying of hangover. i bring him a pitcher of water
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and start drinking again.
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[ (c) HOE E'ZINE -- http://www.hoe.nu HOE #1029, BY KREID - 02/27/00 ]
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