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Grief, I remember scanners from when that first came out! I was freakin’ 19 man! Holy smokes that goes back, just escaped N.J. a year before and was living in Clearwater Florida, workin’ 2 jobs, which I really didn’t need to do, but was trying to keep myself out of trouble, but was not far from the Clearwater Causeway, on Ft. Harrison. Was actually a couple rock chucks from the Scientology building.

Showing my advanced age I guess…but I also remember back then you could walk home from work (day job for me) with a tall boy in a brown wrapper, actually, think it might have been a .40, can’t really remember that far back accurately anymore, and could be drinking it, and as long as you were acting right, the cops wouldn’t bother you.

I had just enough time to walk home, get a little time to chill and get ready for the other job, was cleaning work on the inside of another building, easy work, about 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, and the occasional part time on a random Saturday. Was a nice extra check.

Bad thing was, you would get a nice, hard rain for about 2 minutes on the way home, and you could about set your watch by that, so there was this one place I would stop and duck into with my beer and light a smoke that had an awning, would wait it out. They were pretty cool about it, knew what I was doing, got used to me, and as soon as the rain stopped, I would wave and move on.

Kind of miss those days. I walked a lot better then, Sciatica was decades down the road, and weight gain was never on my mind,as between all the walking and working I did I burned so many calories it was never a consideration…

Glad to see you’re still up here and paying attention. We should chat sometime, I miss our talks.