BILL CADY Word Count: 149,227 - At My Friend's Place

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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 153 chewing I got when they caught me. That David thing got a polite conversation, then had permission to smoke in front of them. Shit, they even bought his cigarettes most of the time. Life ain‟t always fair, ya know what Ah mean, Vern? I started another little sideline when I was a kid. I was always looking to make a better mousetrap, and thought I‟d stumbled on a way to do it. When I was fifteen I got hold of a draft card. For those of you too young to remember, we had a draft system, the Selective Service System, (SSS). One more “S” than Hitler‟s elite crew. The one I obtained belonged to a John Lee Carver. His date of birth made me twenty-three, meaning he was born in 1943. I used that for a while, but only a few places would take it, since I had no drivers‟ license, or any other false ID. So, I went looking for material. Trips to the library and their copy machine helped. With borrowed and stolen documents. Lots of stuff like that. And a razor blade. That was my coup de main, the artistic stroke of my plan. I “lost” my drivers‟ license, so I had to get another one. Back then, they had no pictures. Razor blade in hand, I changed my home address to 1863 Roosevelt Avenue, and my date of birth to 12-28-43, making me out to be twenty-three years old, with a lot of other pieces. Twenty-two other pieces, to be exact. When I was fifteen, I‟d walk into the Saginaw Bar on the way home from school, park my books on the bar, and order a beer. I was “set up” to buy beer in a lot of places around town. It soon made Friday and Saturday nights a nearly comical event. I‟d go to one of my stores. Other kids, seniors and even kids who already graduated, would meet me there. They had to pay extra, of course, so I‟d make a few bucks on the deal. I‟d go in and buy what would come to $200 or more in beer and cheap Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 154 liquor in today‟s dollars, then cart it out to the cars. Keeping the change, plus the fee, I‟d drink free all weekend and still have money left. I didn‟t stop there. I started manufacturing ID sets for other kids, the same way I did mine. I charged fifty bucks a set. Keep in mind, gasoline was selling at 18¢ per gallon then, so it was a lot of money. I did that for a while, but quit after the second time I was visited by the U.S. <strong>At</strong>torney‟s office out of Grand Rapids. I liked making money by selling ID, but not enough to go to a federal prison. They were all over the draft dodgers by that point, so making a false draft card was a serious offence. ### Someone very important in my life was a man named Rex Riddle. He was four “est”” things to me. He was the nicest, kindest, and gentlest man I‟ve ever known. He was also the biggest. Six-nine, three-hundred twenty-five pounds, that was Rex. He was the “baby” of a family of six boys, although he was the biggest of them all. The “runt” in that group, as I understand it, was six-two. Rex was part white, part black, and part Native American, on his mother‟s side. In all the years I knew him, I never once heard Rex swear, or use a dirty word. No vulgarity of any kind. He‟d say, “Oh, gosh!”, or, “<strong>My</strong>, my”, “Golly!” He never used bad words for any reason. Only two things I was aware of could get him angry. However, when he did get angry, any man I‟ve ever met would pray he wasn‟t the reason Rex got pissed off. Rex would be infuriated if anyone hurt a friend of his. No matter why the other guy was doing it, even if he was “entitled” by our code, Rex wouldn‟t allow it. He‟d always step in and finish it for his friend. The other thing was his mother. She died when he was a teenager, and he loved Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
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