Serving pizza and beer till something
better came my way for about six months.
One sunny lunch shift in walks my brother
with Larry Rowlands and a sheepish smirk. 
I waited on them and Larry left a tip bigger
than the total bill! Let me go back and fillin
the blanks.

Larry was the car salesman
at the Chevy dealer when Dad went to buy
me a cheap Chevy to job hunt. Larry took
a fancy to me at age 21, a new college grad.
He would call the house hunting me down
since he had our number. Wanted no part of him,
but Mom said just go out with him once.
 
It was a family joke when he called, I told them
I’m not HOME!  They would hand me the coiled wall
phone receiver laughing. Naïve with men, I agreed
to ONE date where the convo was cars and football
not enough substance for me.

The final straw was the Sunday afternoon he brought
his mama to meet me. Like we were an item or something.
I freaked, lied said I had met someone and had a date. He left.
Family finally got the message- Larry Rowlands was
out of the PICTURE!!!