Aric and I hung out together all summer long. Did a lot of parties and country cruises. Listened to a lot of Heavy Metal. We also did a Free Coffee experiment. There was on old guy afffectionately called Pops that used to come in for coffee every day. He was really old but always in a good mood. He would come in, wave and say “How Do!?”. He always sat in the same seat and drank about a pot of coffee. We never charged him.
I wondered how long it would take to acheive free coffee status. Aric and I decided to find out. first we scouted the local restaurants that served coffee. We then selected the one that had the most pretty young waitresses. The winner was the Azar’s Big Boy on Coliseum Blvd. That summer we started going in there every day. We come in, wave and cheerfully say “How Do?!” We got to know all the waitresses pretty well and sooner than I expected, we were getting free coffee. I owed Aric $1 for the bet. OK I made the bet thing up.
The artificial sweetener they served was called Simbro and we were known there as the Simbro Brothers. Another thing happened that summer. I began to pay less and less attention to the radio and focused more on my growing collection of Metal records. I think that there were too many memories on the radio.
Another change was the women that I began to seek out. They were older, more experienced and often had apartments of their own. They didn’t want boyfriends but knew what they wanted. I had another chance encounter with a beautiful blond at that Azar’s that summer although it would be another year before I realized it. And with that, the curtain closed on The College Intermission.
The Pointer Sisters – Jump For My Love
John Cougar Mellencamp – Pink Houses
The Pointer Sisters – I’m So Excited
John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band – On The Dark Side I’m not sure why but we started calling this girl we knew Raleen Hutchings And The Brown Beaver Band