Friday, September 20, 2024

Hick Is No Role Model

When I left for town on Thursday, my errand day, I saw Hick over by the BARn at his burn pile, with smoke billowing. He waved, and I waved. I figured he was over there, since I smelled smoke when I stepped out the door, and the dogs did not come running.

While in town, I got a text from Hick.

"Im going to town to get a six pack of beer and then come home and get in the pool"

I was  bit surprised, because Hick has not had beer in a long time. He has a drink with Wild Turkey 101 maybe once a week. Sometimes twice a week. But not beer. AND, we've been having cool nights, sometimes in the 50s, and I thought Hick's pool days were done for the season. Public pools close after Labor Day, you know.

When I got home two hours later, Hick was indeed in POOLIO. I went to lean over the rail and interrogate talk to him.

"Do you have a snootful?"

"I had three beers."

"I only see two bottles down there."

"I had one on the way home."

"You CAN'T DO THAT!!! What do you think it is, the 70s?"

"I opened it after I checked the mailbox. On our gravel road."

"What sorrows are you drowning?"

"No sorrows. I'd been working all day on my new storage unit, and my feet hurt. I just wanted a beer."

"What evidence were you destroying on your burn pile?"

"Just the scraps from the insulation I trimmed to put in my new storage unit."

Well. That's a little different. I don't begrudge a working man his beer. It takes about three minutes to get from Mailbox Row to our driveway. I doubt Hick was under the influence by then. I doubt he had even finished a beer. He must have had that one while putting away his 12-PACK, and stripping down to get in POOLIO.

Anyhoo... Hick said POOLIO was a little chilly. I'm pretty sure that might be the last swim of the season. Oh, and if anybody is interested in Hick's beer preferences... it was Michelob Dry, in bottles.

DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE, PEOPLE!

6 comments:

  1. I remember my days of drinking and driving. How nuts we were as young goofs.

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    1. I have also been guilty of that behavior. It was a different time. Thankfully, catastrophe was avoided for both of us!

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  2. I was wondering if it might be a bit too cold now for poolio, but with weather being weird everywhere I figured it was just an extra warm day and he had been standing by a fire. My ex-the second has been drinking again lately and that's the main reason he is the ex. He gave it up and stayed dry for about six years.

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    1. It was 95 yesterday!!! Yet Hick didn't take a dip. Poor Pony. This is unseasonably hot, like July.

      Hick doesn't drink a lot, and he doesn't drink often. I was surprised that he cracked open a beer between here and Mailbox Row. And why he was craving beer. He never asks me to buy it. Just the Wild Turkey. Which is fine with me! One bottle is way easier to put in a cart than a 12-pack of bottles.

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  3. Not drinking and driving is a very wise decision!

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    1. Of course we all realize that NOW! It's also wise to put toddlers in car seats and not let them stand on the front bench seat with only the ARM OF MOM flung out to keep them from going through the windshield. And putting kids in seatbelts, rather than letting them ride on the open tailgate of a truck, swinging their bare feet at 75 mph on the highway! At least I survived those days, heh, heh!

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