It was not easy, i tell you that. First we went to the mens clothing store and I said to the lady clerk there "Him and me need a some rubbers. I am bigger than him so I need a bigger size than him." and she got all redfaced and she said i was in the wrong place and that i shld lower my voice. well, i did just the opposite and said in a big loud voice "I and Jake drove down here thru the mud to get us some rubbers and why wont you sell us any? All my rubbers are old and used up and got holes in them and I am sick and tired of putting them on and getting all wet. Pony up our rubbers!"
But she said she dint have what we were looking for and we needed to go to the pharmacy and maybe be a tad more discreet, which dint make no sense whatsoever. Why wld anyone go to the pharmacy for rubbers? so there i and jake were, out on the street trying to figure out where we cld get some rubbers. we went over to the ShoeFly, which we shld have thot of to begin w/, and I said to the fellow there, "I and jake need us some rubbers." He was this oily looking fellow, and he smirked at us and said, "Oh, you do, do you?"
And i said, "Yes I do, do I. You got rubbers or dont you?" So then he just kind of smirked again and went out back to check his stock and came back w/ a few other smirkers and said No he did not have any rubbers for the two of us, but that probably the drug store did.
So then we went to the drugstore since everyone seemed to want us to go there, and we looked high and low on the shelves but they dint have any rubbers. so then we went to the hardware store b/c they generally have just abt everything and I had good luck last fall getting all that caulk from them and they have always been good abt getting ben gay for me and it just seemed like they wld have rubbers too. we shld have gone there first, I spose.
But we struck out there same as at the other places, even tho i explained that i had been using the same rubbers for several years and jake sometimes borrowed my rubbers and i was sick of him doing that and then jake said Hold the phone, it was me borrowing his rubbers and we went around like that for a while until jake said he dint even really like rubbers b/c it just felt more natural w/o them and i said he was crazy and then he said I was crazy and then we went around like that a little longer, until the manager of the hardware store told us we had to leave or they wld call the police.
Anyway, it looked like our whole trip to get rubbers wasnt working out and then we went in this store what sells hands and i took this picture w/ this camera telephone bil keane left behind.
i dont know abt you, but this picture makes me think of Germany.
Anyhow, abt the rubbers. We finally stopped at the Salvation Army thrift store and when i told Gladys there that we needed rubbers she dint give me any kind of hairy eyeball or smirkmouth or skunktooth or mole-eye or gypsy stammmer or anything, and she just went and got us a couple pairs of rubbers and we put them on over our boots and they fit just so and we are now back in business and our feets are all dry and we even got a third pair for Dody and had money left over to buy rubbers for Travis, Cpt Slow, Oola, and Big Tiny, who is still kind of distrot abt his book from the other night.
So there you have it. i dont know why we dint go to Salvation Army right off the bell like we shld have but now we know and so do you.
