The Old Blog in the Desert

We had only one local market north of town; the Woodland Villa. It was owned by Kathy and Doug DeVol’s parents.

Mom and Dad sent me nearly every other day for one thing or another. This included milk, eggs and cigarettes.

It was one of my favorite things to do, because it gave me a chance to look at the comic books. Once a week I’d to buy a comic book and an R/C cola using money I had earned delivering newspapers.

One day I saw a couple of the neighborhood boys taking a couple of soda bottles the crates behind the store. I thought nothing of it, until I realized they were returning the already-returned bottles for 5-cents.

Sad to say, I didn’t tell on them.