tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post3490528075041344607..comments2023-06-27T01:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Ted Burke LIKE IT OR NOT: Nothing in the store was over five dollarsTED BURKEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-38888336037005958242012-12-02T18:43:14.775-08:002012-12-02T18:43:14.775-08:00Skeets needed bus change bad so he walked two extr... Skeets needed bus change bad so he walked two extra blocks down Magnolia to the huge Pussycat Theater and went up to the elderly woman cashier and handed her a one-spot as he made pleading basset hound eyes only to notice the mica-chip glint of absolute dry-juiced refusal in the cashier's tiny porcine eyes set among a lace-doily webbing of wrinkles indicating considerable age if not wisdom but certainly a hard-baked soul dessicated by the vicissitudes of fate that had taken her from waitress duties at the Hotel Arno Cafe to a clerking shift at the Fletcher Parkway Speedee-Mart to a job at this hideous venereal palace deep in the cement expanses of El Cajon -- her purse-slit lips opened, a tiny strand of saliva glistened and a parched, venom-dipped "Nooooooooo" emerged. Diesel brakes hissed in the background as Skeets felt him ego turn to a thin fluid, draining out of his sandals.Dirk Hammonryenoreply@blogger.com