The Ticket Out
“My sister had mashed herself into the corner of the booth and was picking at a piece of cheesecake.
The Pacific Dining Car was an old-fashioned steak house on the edge of downtown. It catered to business and City Hall people, and the movie stars who still ate meat. My father’s Dining Car routine never varied. He always sat in the darkest room. He always sat on the same side of the same booth, so he could see into the bar and catch the game on TV. He always ate a shrimp cocktail, a T-bone, and o...nion rings; and when he paid the check, he always told the waiter he’d rolled a drunk for his credit card.
They both spotted me as I came in. Father said, “Well, if it isn’t my long-lost daughter, by god! Hello, stranger!”
I shook his hand and slid in next to Sis. She said under her breath, “You came—I can’t believe it.”
I said, “Howdy, pardner. Texas still hot to secede?”
Father said, “It sure the hell is. You still writing for that commie rag?”
“‘You have nothing to lose but your chains.’”MoreLess
The Pacific Dining Car was an old-fashioned steak house on the edge of downtown. It catered to business and City Hall people, and the movie stars who still ate meat. My father’s Dining Car routine never varied. He always sat in the darkest room. He always sat on the same side of the same booth, so he could see into the bar and catch the game on TV. He always ate a shrimp cocktail, a T-bone, and o...nion rings; and when he paid the check, he always told the waiter he’d rolled a drunk for his credit card.
They both spotted me as I came in. Father said, “Well, if it isn’t my long-lost daughter, by god! Hello, stranger!”
I shook his hand and slid in next to Sis. She said under her breath, “You came—I can’t believe it.”
I said, “Howdy, pardner. Texas still hot to secede?”
Father said, “It sure the hell is. You still writing for that commie rag?”
“‘You have nothing to lose but your chains.’”MoreLess
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