What Jerry says about me isn’t worth the breath it takes to say. Why don’t you go back and ask Tessa if I’m a chicken?”Ray glanced over his sh...ulder at where Tessa sat with some friends, and then looked back at me. “I don’t know, man. I think he’s going to be all over you tomorrow.”I blew this off. Ray was right, however, in that Jerry found me at the lockers the next morning and tried to brace me right there in the hallway. He was yelling loud enough to cause a commotion, and was grabbed by a. It took place in the mid-90's, towards the end of the summer heading into my junior year of high school. Near the end of the previous school year I'd tried and fallen in love with pot & music, so I didn't do much over the summer aside from smoke & veg out. I cut grass in the neighborhood to make money, but that was about it. One day my Mom got a call from her brother, Dan, saying that his wife, Lori, had slipped going into the basement with a basket of laundry and broke her ankle. Normally,. Uncle George showed up every Saturday spent time with Marshall and Misty, shortly after Alyssas cooking classes Marshall had to start running with us in the morning. Marshall chuckles saying Be careful what you wish for, I wished Misty was a better cook. Now that she is I have to exercise or Ill get fat. When the weather was too hot, we invited him to do laps with Kathryn and me. Now Sam was trying to do laps as well, her first day she got through three laps before I saw her floating to rest.. 'There's an old man at the bar / Making love to his tonic and gin.' Well ... so what if he didn't get all the lyrics exactly right?Well, 'the regular crowd' on a Memorial Day holiday was about a zillion tourists, all headed for Disney and Universal. He squinted up at the sky, as seen through the Golden Arches. Lots of tourists meant lots of minor emergencies. A peaceful day for peace officers.Nice day for it, he thought to himself. He checked his driver, one raw rookie named Al "Sweetie".