haha why does every old timer always mention that they walked to school for miles with no shoes on? Pretty sure everyone's heard that story at least once.
Well when I was a lad we didn't have any of these portable telephones. So this one day, there I am after school doing something, probably playing pocket pool between the library racks (which was the style at the time), and reckons I that it might be getting on to the time the Late Bus runs. The Late Bus was a peculiar thing. You'd get the school play kids and the math-letes all mixed in with the diciplinary detention kids, which made for a heady mix.
Anywho, come to discover the Late Bus had come & gone. So I starts a trudging. Now I don't say it's any stretch to believe that snow was on the ground in a Jersey December. More of a slush by the roadside tho, which is where a feller's obliged to tread so's not to be run down. Makes for a wet shoe in a hurry, lemme tell ya.
Anywho, I was wearing my trusty boots with the laces undone (which actually was the style at the time) and my feet couldn't be managing to get a whole lot wetter, so I decides to save some steps and cut across Old Man Harper's field. Now Old Man Harper had hisself a dog, and everybody knew he didn't feed it enough, so it's about as ornery as a beast with fangs can be. I was feeling kinda dangerous myself that day, what with braving the elements and all, so I figured me and that dog'd find something in common if it came to it.
Anywho, it came to it and we didn't. Coach always said I shoulda run track fer the team and he'd a not let me go if'n he'd a been looking out a winder at that moment. I crossed that end fence like a Olympian. The runin' kind, not the posin' kind, you understand. Come to find I'd run so hard and so fast I left those trusty old boots out there somewhere to end their days as chew toys for Old Harper's Mongrel.
Then I made my way home and had some Campbell's Chicken Soup with an entire sleeve of Ritz Crackers crumbled into it (as was my wont at the time). That's how I walked home, in the snow, with no shoes. And that's a real story too.
