JJ Rafferty's Video Playlist 8/20/2010

JJ Raferty's again.  We were the show this time.  No one outside of our party was singing.  The bar was empty during the Karaoke time but the crowd came in around nine.  Our beer and ice guy for the night, Bobby, Mmmm.  Couldn't get a picture of him but let's just say that lifting the buckets of ice and cases of beer is a pretty good work out for the biceps.


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...In The Beginning

Jacqui recovered from her injury and was back to her normal tag along self when she was hit by a Freihoffer bread truck.  Well she wasn't exactly run over.  The truck driver hit the breaks but the sudden stop of the truck, jerked it forward and bumped the object in fron of it; my sister.  She was knocked down and only had a few scrapes.  This time it was definitely my fault.

She wanted to go with me and the guys to the corner store and I told her to go ask mommy.  The plan was that while she went into the house to ask for permission, we could go to the store and get back without her.  Little Miss Tagalong was quick.  She got permission and was seconds behind me when I got to the store.  I quickly makde my purchase and left her in the store.  As I got half way down Alexander Street, I hear Jacqui calling, "Eddie, Eddie, cross me!"  She wanted me to go all the way back to the corner and check both sides for traffic.  Mind you, she crossed herself to get to the store.  I ran a few yards up the block to check for traffic on the left.  I couldn't really see the right side, but I said, "Ok, cross!"  As soon as she stepped into the street, the Freihoffer truck appeared on the right side where she was crossing and slammed on the brakes.  I witnessed my sister almost squashed by a bread truck.

The terror raced through my heart and I took off after her to see if she was all right.  When I got to the corner the driver exclaimed, "I'm so sorry.  I didn't see her.  She came out of nowhere.  Is she alright?"  I said, "Yeah, she'll be ok."  I knew she would because she wasn't crying.  Instead she was saying, "I'm telling mommy that you didn't cross me right!"  I knew I would get the extension cord for that one so I bribed her not to tell.  From that point on I had to take her with me everywhere I went.  She held it over my head for quite a long time.  You would think the little thing would forget but she was quick to remind me that we had a secret.

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...In The Beginning

One day I was walking past the shed to get to the side of the house where the concrete yard was ground level when Mr. Tom Cat appeared in the door of the shed. The shed was built on concrete, which was about four feet high. My head just reached slightly above the concrete where the shed structure base began. There I was with Mr. Tom Cat in my face with the fur raised on his back crouched in an attack position screeching at me. He launched at my head and landed on my back. I could feel his claws through my shirt. Screaming, I ran to the back door whaling my arms towards my back to get him off. Joyce came running to the back door to see what was wrong. In tears and whaling I said, “The cat tried to get me”. I had managed to get Mr. Tom Cat off of me before she came to the door. She wrapped me in her arms and said, “You’re ok, baby. Mommy’s here.” From that point on I never went in the yard or walked past the shed by myself again. I always took my little sister. She was a rough and tough Tomboy.

Day At The Track

On Sunday, August 8, 2010 I went to the Saratoga Race Track for the first time this season to reconnect with friends, Jozette and Jo-Anne. I wasn’t sure of how I would handle being at the track without Joyce. That was our thing, well her thing, during the summer. I was the driver who was bribed with the promise of a sausage and peppers sandwich. Joyce really didn’t have to bribe me. I enjoyed our days at the track together or our drives to nowhere discovering new things in Montgomery County and discovering new restaurants and fish fry places. The sausage and peppers sandwich along with the Sunday give-away at the track was gravy on a delicious plate of time spent with Mom.

...In The Beginning

On my day of solitude in the playroom, Pinky and Tony came over to play.  It was ok with me.  They were the only boys I played with.  I was scared of other boys and there weren't any boys my age in the neighborhood.  We had a good time playing with my trucks, cars, buggy and wagon.  Like I said, the room was very large, we could roll around in the buggy and the wagon.  They would roll me around the room in the wagon really fast.  In the beginning it was fun but then it got scarey as they went faster.  They ran out of breathe and took a rest.  This was my chance to escape and get out of the wagon.  As I was getting out of the wagon I got busted.  They said let's do it again.  I was afraid and said, "No!"  They tried to put me back in the wagon and we began to wrestle.  I ended up laying over the wagon so they couldn't put me in it.  One of them tried to pull me off and in doing so, collapsed on top of me.

...In The Beginning

I have flash memories of the things I was aware of concerning Charles.  I knew he was different and the family always spoke about ihim in whispers.  He always tayed in his room when we came over.  It was like the family didn't want me near him or he felt guilty about my burns.  I found myself trying to get into his room.  I felt drawn to him for some reason d didn't know why.  I know he looked like a girl to me.  I guess he was a drag queen.  I don't really know, but that is a flash I have.  I see him warapping himself with a large bandage all around his chest and stomach.  I remember seeing him in a wig and lipstick.  I was curious as to what he was doing and I couldn't have been any more than three-fours years old.