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Scotty!! You bring back happy memories.
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:03:36
In Reply to: Perfect security system, mack, Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:33:52
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Over 30 years ago I worked one summer for a guy who ran a VW repair shop, with a long line of parts cars down a dirt drive and shop way down back. One rainy night a friend of his found a soaking wet drowned rat of a guy trying to keep dry underneath the amusement-park pier at Old Orchard Beach, and drove him to Portland and dropped him off at one of Dave's junk cars.
This was long before the "homeless," he was a plain old wino. He had a thick Scottish accent and we called him Scotty. A free security guard all summer.
"Dave, I'm an honest man. I don't lie, I don't cheat, and I don't steal," I can still hear him saying. So Dave let him live in a VW squareback with the rear seat folded down, great digs, and he and his wino buddies used to get together there and drink and shoot the shit on into the summer evenings. He found work right next door at Rainbow Fruit Salad picking over rotten fruit.
He was about 65 years old and had a daughter who lived in tony Cape Elizabeth nearby, though we never saw her. We were pretty proud of him.
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