“-Let me guess, you were right, and he was wrong.” “I had a difference of opinion with my Bruce.-” I started. He looked over at me, “Don’t you have work? Did you lose your job again!” His face was turning red under his battered Seattle mariners cap. My dad had nothing else to do, and no matter what he said, he has always loved car trips. He needed something to shake him up, and I knew speaking to Mom again would do it. He spent all day on his recliner, alone, he even stopped working in his garden. And then we’ll see your Mariners play the Oakland A’s.”Īlthough I always think of him as so much bigger than me, we were about the same size now, he had lost so much weight from stress over the past year. Please, come along and we’ll see how it goes. "I thought we were going to a baseball game!” “That is the stupidest goddamn thing I have ever heard of! We are driving to Oakland to have a seance on a pay phone?” He said when I told him our actual destination. There is also a donut store where they sell burgers, and a check cashing store in the small strip mall, but everybody references the market when talking about the Phone. I didn't tell my Dad we were going to California so he could talk to his dead wife, my Mom, until we hit Olympia, Washington. You can talk to the dead on the pay phone in front of Seventh Street Market in West Oakland.
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