There is much DETRITUS floating around throught the Internet.
Coffee for $0.62 at Fred 62!
Reminds me of Chuck's 95er in Phoenix. I mentioned this once a long time ago and DR Laura's DH remembers the place. I was stuck in Phoenix rehearsing an abominable Children's Theatre production in 1978. It was a group of men, IIRC, 18 of us (If I Recall Correctly) rehearsing Buffalo Bill's Wild West. It was only men because the b***h*** who ran the theatre company didn't want to spend more money having a separate residence for women. We all arrived in Phoenix singly and were met by the bh's secretary, a truly bizarre woman. She picked me up at the Phoenix bus station and as she dropped me off at the motel (a step up from The Bates Motel but not by much), she reached into her purse and gave me $1.25. I thought, "How sweet" Little did I know that she had given me an entire meal allotment for we were all given $3.75 a day for food and we were expected (unless we had our own secret stash of money) to eat at Chuck's 95er, open 24 hours and you could get an entire meal for $0.95 cents (tax included)!!! Being the good boys that we were, the $0.30 usually went for a tip, but there were times when I was so hungry that I kept the extra money and bought a candy bar to quench my insistent hunger pangs. Once the rehearsal was over we would be broken up into groups of three, given a van and we would tour the country presenting a most excellent history of the life of Buffalo and the opening of the Wild West. It didn't work out quite as planned.
Oh, that two weeks in Phoenix was probably one of the worst two weeks of my life, although the last two days on the road in Indiana (sorry Jack and Joey, I don't remember where, I've blocked some of this out of my mind) when we stayed at the hot sheets motel (for those of you who don't know what a hot sheets hotel is, use your imagination) and then left the company van in the parking lot to return to our respective homes was also pretty bad. I spent a day and a half on a bus going from IN to MN. I had $37.25 left from my first paycheck and a one-way bus ticket to Minneapolis at that time cost $37.20. I had a nickel left and nothing to eat except a jawbreaker which is what I bought with my last nickel. I was never so happy to see the Minneapolis bus station. At the time I was devastated that my first professional job would turn out so badly, but now it's a big laugh. I hope the evil man who ran that Children's Theatre has had karma returned to him in many forms over many years.
And so ends your lesson for today, children. You are now excused for recess (do they still have recess?)
