DELMER & CECIL
Delmer: Of course, who wouldn’t remember her?
Cecil: She bloomed a lot earlier than the other girls.
Delmer: She talked with an echo! I remember you had a crush on her.
DELMER AND CECIL Cecil’s School Dance
Cecil: Gidday Delmer, how’s she goin, what’s new, what’s excitin, what’s shakin, what’s goin on?
Delmer: Nuthin!
Cecil: Yeah I know what ya mean, this time a’year it gets pretty dreary. I can’t wait fer broomball ta start.
Delmer: So Commissar Wynne says we can buy beer in a supermarket now?
Cecil: Yeah, just a six pack and it’ll be the same price as the beer store!
Delmer: What ever happened to competition? I mean how come we can’t shop around with private enterprise, I thought we lived in a democracy?
Cecil: Keep yer voice down. What if somebody hears ya and reports ya to the authorities? Next thing ya know you’ll be in Moose Factory enrolled in a social re-education program!
Delmer: Yeah the beer police are everywhere.
Cecil: Changing the subject, I was thinkin the other day... Delmer: Must have been painful!
Cecil: You got the sense of humour of a bivalve!
Delmer: Like a Brabant or one of them East German cars?
Cecil: No, no, I was thinkin of back to school, I think around grade seven. Remember the dances we had in the gym?
Delmer: Sort of. Cecil: Remember Vicki Saunders?
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Cecil: Yeah, yeah, who didn’t? Well what I was gettin at was those dances we had in that tiny gym. Remember how all the boys’d line up against one wall and the girls against the other and nobody danced.
Delmer: Except the girls started dancin with each other.
Cecil: Remember Miss Beeton the art teacher who thought she was real cool and the students pal. She’d get on the microphone and say something like “C’mon kids let’s dance” and she get on the floor and gyrate around.
Delmer: She looked like her tendons were cut at birth!
Cecil: Well I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone: One, I’d make brownie points with Miss Beeton by being the first guy to dance and two, I’d get to dance with Vicki Saunders.
Delmer: I remember this story.
Cecil: Well I teed it up with Trevor who was running the record player. When he saw me make my move he was to play a slow tune
Delmer: You were gonna make an impression on Vicki?
Cecil: No, I was hopin she’d make an impression on me.
Delmer: Oh I get it.
Cecil: Not very often I’m told! Anyway, there were two things standing in my way: one was that stretch of no-man’s land across the centre of the gym (where angels fear to tread) and two, all the guys who were gonna be watching this escapade. There was nothing else for it, I started my jittery walk across the gym. I’m sure I know how the inmate feels walking that last walk from his cell. Ray Boudreau says “I looked like I thought the area was mined.” A silence settled upon the gym as I made my way over to Vicki. There were no shortage of open mouths from both the boys and the girls. I reached enemy territory and mumbled in a weak voice “would you like to dance” and she said in a loud voice “No thanks”. So I was prepared for this humiliation, I said in a louder voice “Don’t thank me, thank God someone asked you”! All
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