{"id":6957,"date":"2010-11-06T20:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T03:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?page_id=6957"},"modified":"2010-11-06T20:38:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T03:38:20","slug":"chapter-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?page_id=6957","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sound: <\/strong>Moody Blues \u2013 Just a Singer<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Cheap Trick – Surrender<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>David Essex \u2013 Rock On<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>The Hollies \u2013 Long Cool Woman<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Starz \u2013 Cherry Baby<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Blondie \u2013 Heart of Glass <\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Jethro Tull \u2013 Aqualung<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Uriah Heep \u2013 Easy Livin<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>CCR \u2013 Bad Moon Rising<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Ozark Mountain Daredevils \u2013 Chicken Train<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Charlie Daniels \u2013 Devil Went Down To Georgia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We drive for about 20 minutes, the wind whipping my waist long hair around me like a halo, and I\u2019m distracted by it. I\u2019m distracted enough to find myself sitting in the front seat of a mustang headed along the freeway in Minneapolis but not distracted enough to forget the mountain of man in the backseat, gently chiding Boomer and BarnYard as to just which liquor store they should stop at.<\/p>\n

We pull into the parking lot of a Liquor-Mart and I am flummoxed at all the advertising\u2026\u201d2 for 1 Brewsky\u2019s\u2026cans or bottles\u201d \u201cFifths for $4.50\u201d I think that maybe I\u2019m in booze heaven and just for a moment I forget where I am and what I seem to have gotten myself into.<\/p>\n

Robert leans forward and quietly speaks to me, his voice masked under the noise Boomer and Barnyard are making around their discussion of booze selections for the evening, \u201cI understand your fear little girl\u201d.<\/p>\n

I catch my breath, scared again, \u201cyo you do?\u201d I breath<\/p>\n

\u201cah-yup\u201d he replies \u201ctell you what\u2026.jest cos yer nervous I\u2019ll make ya a little deal. A little deal but a good deal cos I\u2019m a fair man.\u201d<\/p>\n

I turn sideways in my seat and look at him\u2026.\u201dRobert certainly is large\u201d I think once again and now I can\u2019t stop my mind from running round with thoughts of white slave markets and girls disappearing off of the face of the earth. In a flash I realize by comparison that all my troubles at home somehow seem not quite so \u201cbig\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cah-yup\u2026I\u2019ll make you a deal fair and square\u2026.these 2 jackass\u2019 are gonna go in to that there store and buy us all sometin to drink, and what they are gonna buy you is just one can o\u2019beer.<\/p>\n

Then we are goin to go over to the house and you are gonna have that one can. After that one cab iffn you are still scared as white as ya are now, I\u2019ll have Boomer put you on a bus back to Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m afraid to breath.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking that this just might be the break I need. \u201cOne beer..that\u2019s it\u2026one beer and then I can get the hell outta Dodge! Maybe there\u2019s a way to get outta this after all.\u201d I take a deep breath and smile at Robert and agree.<\/p>\n

Robert smiles and nods to the boys who head into the liquor store. We sit in silence, Robert looking off into the city streets and I look at my hands in my lap, wearing that smug little smile Mike always said I get when I think I\u2019ve come out on top.<\/p>\n

The door to the LiquorMart crashes open and out falls Boomer and BarnYard laughing and swaggering followed by a grizzled old timer pushing a moving dolly.<\/p>\n

A moving dolly\u2026carrying a keg of beer\u2026and I begin to fear the worst.<\/p>\n

\u201cone\u2026..<\/p>\n

single\u2026..<\/p>\n

can of beer\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the dawn of realization comes over me I turn to glare at Robert and he smiles and winks at me. Boomer and Barnyard howl at the joke. I slouch down in my seat and think that maybe now would be a good time to take up praying for a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sound: Moody Blues \u2013 Just a Singer, Cheap Trick – Surrender, David Essex \u2013 Rock On, The Hollies \u2013 Long Cool Woman, Starz \u2013 Cherry Baby, Blondie \u2013 Heart of Glass , Jethro Tull \u2013 Aqualung, Uriah Heep \u2013 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":6871,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6957","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6957\/revisions\/6958"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}