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Highway 99 - SallyDressings

We left the house in Picnic Pointand mom got a shop on Hiway 99. She sold her salad dressings, under the name "Sally Dressings", an idea from friend Rick Perkins. I opened a guitar studio on the right side, got a couple of students for a short time.

I found out that Suzette Mount liked me during Fourth Grade P.E. She was kind of flirty, but I might have been too, lol. I was 11 and she was 13-14. She never really gave me a straight answer. What she did give me was a shopping list. I had to bring her candy the first time I rode my bike over to her house. We stood infront of her house, on opposite side of the fence taht used to be there. We made small talk and her  mom yelled "Just kiss him already!" That didin't happen. That day.

 

She instructed me to pick out very specific candies from the coandy counter at our restaurant on my way to school. I believe the confectionary order increased exponentially over the next week or two. The other girls taunted me, saying "She's just using you! She just likes you for candy!"  How dare they suggest that I had not found true love??? What nerve. Soon after that, Ben got onto me about the candy. One of his evil waitresses finked on me!

 

I was forced to explain to Suzette that I could no longer carry duffle bags full of Tootsie Pops to her any more. She dropped me like a half-eaten candied-apple.

 

I was a sucker for a pretty face. Hot lunch at school was 45 cents a day. I thought the youngish lunch lady who sold the lunch tickets was cute, so every day I handed her my two quarters and let her keep the change. So slick. Got in trouble again. Somebody at school finked on me too. Whole blasted town was full of finks.

 

 

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