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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 315 There was a lumber mill on the north side of town, owned by my still unofficial Grandpa, Bob McGeorge. A small general store with mostly food items, a bait shop, a hardware, a gas station, and a bar, The Swiss Inn. That‟s just about it. You now know all about Lake George, which got the name by being, in some places, only a few feet from the waters of Lake George. Must‟ve been The Swiss Inn was about to do inventory and would rather sell it than count it, „cause Unc did everything he could to totally eliminate their entire stock in one night. The hangover he had the next day would‟ve felled any moose who ever lived in northern Michigan. That man was sick. Goddamned awfully sick, and even a kid like me could see it very plainly. That was the first time I ever heard of anything called “the hair of the dog”. He and Mom were arguing about it until she told him to kiss her ass and went down to the beach, maybe 150 yards from our cottage. It stems from an old adage for use when bitten by a dog. The wisdom of the ages suggests putting a hair “from the dog that bit you” on the wound to promote healing. Drinking more alcohol, as long as it‟s not a sugary sissy drink, will only add liquids, which helps a lot, and assist in stabilizing the former drunk‟s system. So, Unc overdid it, as usual. While one beer might‟ve helped out, maybe even two, he sucked down about six in a row. Then he insisted he was right and Mom was wrong, since he felt good again. Why shouldn’t he no longer have a hangover? Hell, he was drunk again. I think it‟s one of the natural rules of life; you can‟t be hungover and drunk at the same time. Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 316 The “big adventure” came when I was nineteen, just shortly after I broke it off with Jackie Fox, when I found her and that priest getting a little too close for my liking. Darrell and Mabel were moving back to West Virginia, “where things are a lot happier”, as I was told. Oh, but I wasn‟t told about “a lot slower”, nor was any mention made of “mostly stupider”, but that may have been only the people I met when I was down there. I can‟t condemn an entire state based on a couple hundred nitwits. However, I can attest some of the women I met sure as hell enjoyed sex, so my trip was by no means a loss. As I mentioned, Rita was pregnant. About six months, I think. I also had a secret desire to screw the hell out of her, so my motivation wasn‟t entirely chaste, not by any means. To be accurate, my motivation was largely prurient. Darrell and Mabel had rented a house in Wonderland, West Virginia. It‟s a couple miles outside of Minden, which is also not listed on any internet maps I was able to find. It‟s just outside Oak Hill, which is just outside Whipple Junction, which isn‟t close to anything. It‟s maybe twenty-five miles north of US 64 on 19, if that matters to you. I learned very quickly as I drove in those mountains a speed limit suggestion, the numbers on a yellow sign in black letters, is very important. If it says 15 mph, it does not mean 16 mph. I‟m not kidding, it‟s that bad. If you speed in those areas, your next of kin will pay a lot of money to have your body hauled up to the road. That‟s why you can see cars down there before they get overgrown by brush. Anything that goes off the side of a mountain isn‟t worth hauling back up unless you want it for scrap metal. We had two nice days down there, and Unc was sober both days. By his age fifty, Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
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