{"id":1557,"date":"2008-01-18T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:27:36","slug":"chapter-35-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

the sound:<\/strong><\/span> Stevie Ray Vaughn \u2013 The House is Rocking<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Eric Clapton \u2013 Groanin the Blues<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>BBKing \u2013 Blues Boys Tune<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Gary Moore \u2013 Still Got the Blues<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Nina Simone \u2013 Don\u2019t Let me be Misunderstood<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Sarah Brightman \u2013 Gloomy Sunday<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>John Lee Hooker \u2013 Healer Man<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Rory Gallagher \u2013 Bullfrog Blues<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We ride across the field, around the track and out a back gate to a dirt road. People were \u201cyehawing\u201d and there was a sense of excitement like we were going to a party. I sit rigidly on the back of Jed\u2019s bike trying desperately to have no part of me touch him\u2026no small feat on a honked up Sportster.<\/p>\n

In the distance I can see the unmistakable glow of early morning and I\u2019m wondering just where the hell we\u2019d be going at this time of the day, and what would possibly make these people have such a sense of excitement over going to a dump?<\/p>\n

I decide that there\u2019s truly nothing I can do about it so I might just as well enjoy the ride and just as I\u2019m thinking that it would have been nice to have a pair of glasses on we leave the dirt road and hit taramac. The sun peeks out above the skyline and I realize that we are headed towards the city.<\/p>\n

Some hour later we are weaving our way through streets in downtown St. Paul and Jed has loosened me up enough to deign to allow him point out some sights to me. We are riding next to LittleMan and Wonder Woman and I can see fresh blood on the bandage on his arm and she looks a little worse for the wear.<\/p>\n

Eventually we come to a back street that closely resembles a city alley and turn down towards what looks to be a dead end. As we get closer to the dead end I realize that it\u2019s a huge set of garage doors set in the wall of what looks to be a warehouse. And I mean huge, big enough to drive two transports through side by side.<\/p>\n

As we approach the doors swing open and we all travel through the doors and down a ramp to underground parking. I\u2019m astonished to see 90 or 100 motorcycles there and as our group shuts down their bikes I realize that cacophony I hear is not motors but a band. A very loud rockin roll and blues band. <\/p>\n

After parking and dismount we all walk towards a door sized gate. I look around and don\u2019t see Rosie and Boomer and BarnYard and WonderWoman leans over to tell me that \u201ccars have to park outside\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere the hell are we?\u201d I ask\u2026thinking again that arriving at a bar at the crack of dawn is just a little out of the ordinary for me these days\u2026unless of course it\u2019s for inventory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWonderWoman, LittleMan and Jed all announce \u201cthe Dump\u201d at once and then laugh at themselves while looking at me like I should really know what they are talking about.<\/p>\n

As we enter through the first gate there are 2 of the largest \u2018bouncers\u2019 I have ever seen in my life standing legs akimbo arms crossed over their chests and the blonde one stops us as a group and points above his head to a sign that bears the \u201cHouse Rule\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThou shall not die inside the building\u201d is blazoned in large black script on the clean white sign. <\/p>\n

The blonde guy leans towards us and nods knowingly \u2026\u201dwe ain\u2019t shittin ya\u2026nobody dies here\u2026.take that shit outside if it happens\u2026cos you know it\u2019s gonna\u2026we don\u2019t\u2019 care how or why\u2026just.not.here.\u201d he underscores the last words as if he\u2019s had this talk with these people before. <\/p>\n

A couple of the guys chuckle uncomfortably and Robert turns and raises a finger in warning \u201ca rule is a rule\u201d he announces.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell fine then,\u201d I think,\u201d what\u2019s your fucking rule about letting me go home soon?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the sound: Stevie Ray Vaughn \u2013 The House is Rocking, Eric Clapton \u2013 Groanin the Blues, BBKing \u2013 Blues Boys Tune, Gary Moore \u2013 Still Got the Blues, Nina Simone \u2013 Don\u2019t Let me be Misunderstood, Sarah Brightman \u2013 Gloomy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}