AKR
While walking around, dodging rain on Wednesday, and doing more of the same on Thursday, I had a random thought about Alan Kent Rogers, maybe it was a UPS Truck. He worked loading trucks and he worked in a factory, making money for college. These were the days before Pell Grants and large student loans and when a college degree meant more in the job market.
AKR forged an ID used to buy beer, he used stage makeup to look older and was a success in buying at Leider's Liquors.
He was a prankster. And he had a rather serious industrial accident where he he lost a finger. After the bandages came off he became a proponent of base nine. Counting on his fingers became 9,18,27,36. The insurance money helped him go to college, hitch across the country, visit India and other stuff I've forgotten.
These were the days when Viet Nam was a big deal, sort of like Iraq, with a lot more casualties and the draft which is the subject for another post later.
We talked about a lot of subjects before or after work, and one of them was about Charlie Whitman, a University of Texas shooter that killed 23, but the topic wasn't gun control. About his trip to India he spoke of kids coming up and wanting to touch his very blond hair.
Dead of a heart attack at age 29 in California, if I remember correctly. Marching to the beat of his own drum all the way.
AKR forged an ID used to buy beer, he used stage makeup to look older and was a success in buying at Leider's Liquors.
He was a prankster. And he had a rather serious industrial accident where he he lost a finger. After the bandages came off he became a proponent of base nine. Counting on his fingers became 9,18,27,36. The insurance money helped him go to college, hitch across the country, visit India and other stuff I've forgotten.
These were the days when Viet Nam was a big deal, sort of like Iraq, with a lot more casualties and the draft which is the subject for another post later.
We talked about a lot of subjects before or after work, and one of them was about Charlie Whitman, a University of Texas shooter that killed 23, but the topic wasn't gun control. About his trip to India he spoke of kids coming up and wanting to touch his very blond hair.
Dead of a heart attack at age 29 in California, if I remember correctly. Marching to the beat of his own drum all the way.
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