Larry
spoke about
himself
in the
third person
and had
a permanent
boil on
his cheek
the size
of an apple
he had
worked at
the adult
book store
for years
as 1st
shift manager
at the
end of
every day
he would
tell us
to be sure
to remember
“call Larry
in case
of cunt”
so we
called him
Larry the
cunt and
in my
year at
the book
store no
woman
ever came
in to
buy or
sell anything
much less
give it
away
so we
never called
Larry or
thought much
about him
after his
shift ended.
the adult book store
it was
a job
I could
get without
a resume
just 3
references
and the
ability to
run a
cash register
so I
learned the
price of
dildos and
the difference
between
Ginger Amber
and Mercedes
Lynn I
learned never
ask a
customer what
can I
do for
you on
Gay Movie
Monday and
a hundred
other things
I would
never get
to use
in the small
town college
I went to
not as
a freshman
anyway
Adult books and toys
some of
the dildos
were so
big I
could not
imagine
who could
use them
and the
local drag
queen was
better looking
than most
of the
girls I
went to
college with
and one
night a
guy OD’ed
in the
big video
room but
after the
police and
paramedics
left the
mess was
no harder to
clean than
the piss
and jizz
on the
floor of the
peep show
booths in
back.
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