Brother Broken
Rodeo fun...
Dad took us to the Hub Café for lunch. We ordered
cheeseburgers and Vi-Co. We feasted. Our booth had a tabletop jukebox. None of
us knew how to operate it other than to turn the knob to flip the playlist. So
we ate without dinner music. Besides, we didn’t have supplementary cash to feed
it.
“Dad? Can I have a nickel for the jukebox?”
“No.” He reached into his pocket and handed over some coins.
“Go to Madill’s and buy smokes.”
Madill’s was a drugstore with a massive selection of goods
to buy. It was a great place to get cigarettes while waiting in line to
purchase cough medicine. At that time, you didn’t have to be of age to buy
cigarettes, and no one ever questioned why an eight-year-old needed smokes.
After lunch, we went to the Stampede Grounds and watched the
rodeo action. It was wild. I particularly liked the barrel racing, because the
riders were girls, like me. But after a while, we became bored. Dad took us to
the midway, bought some ride tickets, and put us on the Ferris wheel. John,
Mitch and I shared a ride. It was the freakiest thing we had experienced up to
that time.
Mr. T bought us cotton candy, and we scarfed it down. After
a ride on the Tilt-a-Whirl, we packed into Mr. T’s car to go home. Between the
Tilt-a-Whirl ride, the cotton candy, and riding in the back seat, I started to
feel sick.
“I’m not feeling so good.”
I might have spoiled the perfect day when I upchucked cotton
candy in Mr. T’s car. Good thing upchucking wasn’t a collective undertaking for
John, Mitch, and me. I was alone on that one. Mr. T never offered to take us
anywhere after that.
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