DELMER & CECIL


DELMER & CECIL


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At the BARBER Shop


(THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT FROM A CONVERSATION HEARD AT RYAN’S BARBERSHOP ON OCT. 27 2016.)


Delmer: Did ya hear about certain Hallow- een costumes bein’ a no no this year?


Godfrey: Another frontal attack by the sanc- timonious holier than thou politically correct weinies!!


Seamus: Why can’t they just let kids be kids for a change?


Cecil: Exactly! Remember back when kids rode their bikes with just a ball hat on and you could leave the bike unlocked outside the school and it never got stolen?


Henry: Remember searching the ditches for empty pop bottles and cashing them in for penny candy?


Delmer: Lets see, there was those fake wax cigars with that red liquid inside.


Cecil: Not allowed now, the red stuff was mostly sugar and the cigars would be seen as promoting smoking! Both cardinal sins being worthy of being burned alive in the public square.


Delmer: Remember on hot days drinking from the garden hose?


Henry: It would be termed unsanitary now, 44 BOUNDER MAGAZINE


somehow plastic bottles are supposed to be better.


Seamus: Remember riding in the backseat of the family car with no seatbelts and your dad puffing away on a butt?


Delmer: And more likely than not the car had bald tires and the brakes weren’t the best either!


Cecil: On really hot days riding in the back of a pickup truck was the best!


Delmer: Remember the little Seabreeze record player and the scratched records that sounded great to us.


Cecil: Speakin’ of music, remember goin’ to the ex and seein’ the band from the Copper- tone Review?


Henry: Yeah, I remember that!! It was always these black


guys from the States and they’d come out in front of the


girlie tent and play a few tunes to suck the people into goin’ in.


Delmer: Yeah, and they had baggy old wrinkled suits and looked bored out of their


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