DL: Stealing Watermelons
In my day of the great crime spree, Raymond and I stole several fat, sweet watermelons from
the neighbor’s ample patch behind his sweet corn rows, and we
got caught
boosting said melons over the fence. No slow-motion television crap for us, uh huh. What we got was tantamount to a one-gun salute, as the farmer opened up with a double-barrel shotgun loaded with rock salt. Thanks to the Gods and Goddesses of Scottish lore, those tiny bits of rock salt missed me entirely, but they put a nice tattoo on poor Ray’s behind, of which we talked about for years to come when we weren’t at a state of war, that is/
David Laird
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