chuckv97 - Posted - 04/08/2020:  21:38:19

I’m packin’ my bags and leavin’ you.

I asked the Greyhound driver if he’d mind if I played my harmonica

OM45GE - Posted - 04/09/2020:  03:51:46

he said it was fine with him as long as I stayed behind on the platform.

I watched through a cloud of diesel exhaust as the bus drive off

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/09/2020:  06:47:10

with many passengers cheering.

Sorrow lent me words, and those words express

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/09/2020:  07:04:26

my anger towards greyhound bus lines.

it was not all bad as Checker Cab company was right next door and

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/09/2020:  08:06:18

offered me a job on the spot.



I play recordings of my harmonica sonatas for my passengers

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OM45GE - Posted - 04/09/2020:  08:08:40

I was able to get a ride quickly.

The cabbie asked me

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/09/2020:  08:44:36

if I were paying by cash or banjer lessons...

After the lesson I finally arrived at my

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/09/2020:  10:34:23

local poolhall.

I cued up

OM45GE - Posted - 04/09/2020:  17:32:38

and broke with a resounding crack.

The other players immediately realized

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/09/2020:  17:38:38

I was a fish just waiting for the bait.

After I won 2 games at $1 apiece

OM45GE - Posted - 04/09/2020:  17:42:10

they flopped a stack of double sawbucks on the rail and said, “Rack ‘em up”.

I didn’t know whether to

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/09/2020:  19:11:17

laugh or run.

I put quarters in the jukebox

OM45GE - Posted - 04/10/2020:  03:45:00

and searched for some appropriate tunes.

I was hoping to find

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/10/2020:  06:56:33

some real bluegrass music but it wasn't there.

From there I bought a round of drinks until this big burly Kentuckian

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/10/2020:  07:06:42

walked in with a skinny Canuckian.

I could tell they were

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/10/2020:  07:49:20

attendees of the flat earth convention.

Dim Lights, Thick smoke began to play

OM45GE - Posted - 04/10/2020:  07:50:02

on intimate terms with one another.

For one thing, they

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/10/2020:  08:57:50

were both ian's

(Canuckian & Kentuckian)

OM45GE - Posted - 04/10/2020:  11:35:02

and both had unusual tattoos.

Canuckian Ian’s was

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/10/2020:  12:25:11

a moose with antlers climbing her neck.

The Kentucky-ian's

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/10/2020:  13:37:11

very strange and unusual.

The other Kentuckian Ian's just couldn't compete

OM45GE - Posted - 04/10/2020:  13:58:50

so he kept his sleeves rolled down.

I caught a glimpse

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/10/2020:  14:14:52

of the Kentuckian but he never returned to the flat earth conventions.

He finally saw the light with his sleeves rolled so tight that

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/10/2020:  17:04:46

with all his might he took flight.

The Bluegrass Parkway is where I saw the light

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/10/2020:  17:22:15

but the cement is where he came to rest.

Gravity isn't respected until

OM45GE - Posted - 04/10/2020:  18:24:52

your face smacks into the pavement.

At that moment you will

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/10/2020:  20:15:39

wish your pa and ma never made whoopee.

“A face only a mother could love”

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/11/2020:  03:50:35

if you could find it.

I sent my respects

OM45GE - Posted - 04/11/2020:  04:42:28

to go sit in their room and contemplate the error of their ways.

Lately they’ve been

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/11/2020:  05:29:15

sleeping in separate rooms since the accident.

I really don't know if pa will ever recover as ma said that he was

OM45GE - Posted - 04/11/2020:  05:57:33

determined to milk his disability for all it’s worth.

That may not be

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/11/2020:  09:04:30

true as some have said that ma was pretty dried herself.

They were actually caught stealing lard and

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/11/2020:  09:34:36

hoarding it by the caseload in the root cellar.

The Hoard Police showed up on their doorstep

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/11/2020:  12:57:48

which was now leading down to the root cellar after the big storm.

They proceeded to go down the steps when all of the sudden a

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/11/2020:  14:14:13

the crack of a banjo made them tumble down the steps.

When they woke

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/12/2020:  08:06:14

they were laying on their bellies.

The local sheriff called upon the

OM45GE - Posted - 04/12/2020:  10:41:29

reporter for the weekly newspaper.

He thought it might make

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/12/2020:  10:54:09

him a minor Walter Winchell if he scooped it.

However, his D- in college English

OM45GE - Posted - 04/12/2020:  15:07:45

meant he don’t speak no good.

His writing is

KyBanjo - Posted - 04/12/2020:  15:50:35

quite the talk of the town, sometimes country too.

However his stories are always

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/12/2020:  17:10:28

entertaining in a sophomoric kind of way.

He often chases ambulances

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/12/2020:  18:21:01

and tries to tell the story in pictures.

Have some respect

OM45GE - Posted - 04/13/2020:  03:41:54

for privacy is a concept that’s quite beyond him.

Of course, if he was

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/13/2020:  07:27:17

peeping tom then all bets are off, whatever that means.

I’ve been self-isolating

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/13/2020:  18:15:04

which is nothing new.

I developed antibodies for cabin fever long time ago

Bill Rogers - Posted - 04/13/2020:  19:27:58

while snowbound in the Adirondacks.

And that was long before the internet changed

chuckv97 - Posted - 04/13/2020:  19:37:03

to metric gigabytes and daylight savings time.



My first computer had a hand crank

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OM45GE - Posted - 04/14/2020:  03:35:07

but I could never figure out what it did.

It makes a peculiar sound like

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 04/14/2020:  06:18:31

"want to play a game?" in monotone.

Never felt like