The couple who lived in a Dodge van
Arrived about 12 noon at the depot. Waited for a new load of ice-cream to arrive from Detroit. Chris the girl who lives with Don Lucci in a Dodge van in the Penguin car-park was in a state. Don had spent the night in jail and, after begging a dime from me, she had found out that he was no longer there.
I drove her up to Willoughby City Hall where the courts are. She is so insecure: wondered if he had left the state without her etc. She had not eaten or slept since he was arrested, apparently for disorderly conduct or similar. It turned out he was at the Hall arranging bail. They needed $180 to spring him.
We returned to the depot and on the way picked up a friend of Chris’s hitching down the road. He had also spent the night in jail and had talked with Don. Chris kept asking questions like “did he say anything about me?”; “did he ask anything about me?”; “did he ask you about the girls in Florida?”. So dependent on the slob. She asked if we could lend them some money, but we had to refuse. They have about $5 between them and no prospect of repaying us within say a fortnight. Felt really mean.
We went for brunch at Kleifeld’s in Willoughby, really to kill time. Eventually loaded and set out. Only other event of the day was meeting yet another Elyria Jumbo. He was a lot more pleasant than Mohamed who had told me he didn’t want to see me on his route again.
Went to a Convenient Food Mart in the evening. They had a security guard there, whose job it is to stand there all day watching people shopping. On his belt he carries a 2 ft truncheon, a tear-gas canister, and a pistol. Also spare ammunition and a triangular pouch containing? This country never ceases to amaze me. He even had the leather safety strap on a holster undone for a quick draw. It’s no warning in the manager’s office for shoplifters here. The only salt we could get was “Lite Salt” which has “half the sodium of ordinary salt”.
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