The speeding car pulled into the Rexhame Beach Grocery Store parking lot way too fast, even for 7 in the morning. I watched in amazement as two females exited the run-down car, followed by plumes of cigarette smoke. One reminded me of Mom right before she got the cancer. She was thin and had those drawn-in smoker's cheeks. The other woman was a blonde with the biggest thigh tattoo I have ever seen . . . and I was in the Navy for four years! But what happened next was amazing. The blonde opened the trunk of the car that they drove up in, and with what seemed like a foot-long cigarette between her lips, pulled out a gasoline can and proceeded to put the gas into what obviously was her low-on-gas car. I thought of reasoning with them but instead I just waited for the explosion . . . but it never came.
I had turned in $32 in cans and bottles and thought about buying four packs of cigarettes but I didn't. But maybe I will put it towards a tattoo. Even without the explosion it was still a good day and who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Tocino
