chuckv97 - Posted - 09/06/2017:  13:17:18

rummaging through smashed cars' seats at Rocky's U-Pik-It Wrecking Yard.

Rocky sics his junkyard dog

OM45GE - Posted - 09/07/2017:  02:55:09

on customers just for fun. 

He likes to watch

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/07/2017:  04:25:32

as they scale the fence.

Rocky is not a

OM45GE - Posted - 09/07/2017:  06:17:41

as gruff as he seems when you first meet him.

After a little while, you realize that he

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chuckv97 - Posted - 09/07/2017:  07:10:55

helps little old ladies change their flat tires.

They often bring him

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/07/2017:  08:21:42

into their homes a give him "treats".

This causes Rocky to be more

OM45GE - Posted - 09/07/2017:  08:52:16

secretive about his whereabouts than ever.

He doesn't want

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/07/2017:  09:27:32

Mrs.Rocky to know his where-a-bouts.

If she finds out there will be

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/07/2017:  20:06:25

hub caps and hood ornaments flying around their humble '62 vintage trailer parked in the Studebaker row.

Never scorn a wrench's lady

OM45GE - Posted - 09/08/2017:  02:55:43

if you value your health. 

She has the ability to

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/08/2017:  04:26:42

talk at 97psi per second.

But Rocky has ear plugs so

OM45GE - Posted - 09/08/2017:  10:33:52

he's unaware of her fast talking talents.

For all he knows, she could be

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/08/2017:  19:24:03

lip-syncing the words to "Hit the Road, Jack".

But she loves their junkyard dog Rochdale

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/09/2017:  03:29:51

who eats 3 lbs of dry food every 2 hours.

Not to mention the water that

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/10/2017:  03:25:57

we have to carry to her.

The only thing that will

OM45GE - Posted - 09/11/2017:  02:48:20

come between her and that dog is a crowbar. 

It can be disturbing when

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/11/2017:  08:03:22

Rocky walks in brandishing said crowbar.

Rochdale makes a beeline

OM45GE - Posted - 09/11/2017:  17:31:28

look crooked when he heads to the food.

I think 

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chuckv97 - Posted - 09/12/2017:  06:58:16

he has a straight gut and a hollow leg.

Rocky threatens to

OM45GE - Posted - 09/12/2017:  08:19:36

banish him from the house but I don't think he'll really do it.

The more important question is whether

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/13/2017:  10:42:32

Rochdale is earning his keep by upholding the standards of junkyard dogs everywhere.

Junkyard Central patrols

OM45GE - Posted - 09/13/2017:  15:14:35

the perimeter of the junkyards but they don't dare to venture inside.

The last time they did, they

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/14/2017:  06:16:56

were met with a flashing row of sharp teeth.

Junkyard Dog Union rules

OM45GE - Posted - 09/14/2017:  18:27:02

provide special bonuses for biting multiple people.

Rochdale earned several

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/14/2017:  20:30:25

free cans of Gravy Train and a fresh femur on which to gnaw.

He prefers humerus bones

OM45GE - Posted - 09/15/2017:  02:47:25

when they are attached to someone trying to make an escape.

It makes them

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/15/2017:  05:36:11

but will chew on chicken bones in a pinch.

Which puts him in

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/15/2017:  07:19:06

Old MacDonald's bad books.

His chicken coop

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/16/2017:  04:42:24

is full of lice and vermine.

The poor thing will never be

OM45GE - Posted - 09/16/2017:  05:20:31

truly happy as long as he's stuck in that junkyard.

He's envious of

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/16/2017:  05:59:28

all his other friends.

We should all gather around and

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/16/2017:  11:54:54

sing Kumbaya to cheer him up.

But Rocky hates peacenik songs

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/16/2017:  12:57:53

and such like.

But none the less we shall continue with

OM45GE - Posted - 09/16/2017:  13:07:13

our efforts to cheer him up, because that's what friends are for.

It doesn't matter that Rocky dislikes us all,

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/16/2017:  14:33:05

since his coterie of pals is non-existent anyway.

Ever since he sold that '57 T-Bird

OM45GE - Posted - 09/16/2017:  17:59:07

to the producers of American Graffiti and they sent it to the crusher, he hasn't been the same.

He keeps muttering

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/17/2017:  04:03:47

"bird",,I'll Fly Away,,,,,,,,"bird",,I'll Fly Away.

At least he's able to

OM45GE - Posted - 09/17/2017:  05:10:18

come up with a semi-coherent sentence, unlike his father.

He babbles endlessly

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/17/2017:  05:56:38

and forgets to eat.

Not to mention the

OM45GE - Posted - 09/17/2017:  06:16:08

enormous pile of empty beer bottles beside his recline.

It makes you wonder

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/17/2017:  09:35:27

how he ever managed to tear down his '52 Studebaker.

Problem is, he

OM45GE - Posted - 09/17/2017:  17:08:43

never actually did tear down that Studebaker.

He did total it against a tree after

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/18/2017:  04:45:17

the senior class reunion of 1958.

That Golden Hawk was his

OM45GE - Posted - 09/18/2017:  08:28:22

favorite thing in the world other than his dog, his banjo, his rubber band ball and his belly button lint collection.

He was planning to make

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/18/2017:  08:44:48

a movie but couldn't find a producer.

So he did a short video on how to

chuckv97 - Posted - 09/18/2017:  08:58:56

ruin your life in 5 easy steps.

Rocky's wife, then a barmaid, found him sulking on a barstool

OM45GE - Posted - 09/18/2017:  11:25:47

out in the middle of the town landfill.

He had some newspaper scraps in his hair and

banjoscotty - Posted - 09/18/2017:  13:21:54

smelled like B.O. Plenty.

But Dick Tracy was on the job so

OM45GE - Posted - 09/18/2017:  13:44:47

I knew Lois Lane had to be somewhere in the area.

I always had the hots for Lois so I started