Sitting here thinking about it. the Brook and some of the memories.
Funny one that just struck me.
we were around 14 or so. Just started drinking beer.
We used to get quarts of ... Colt 45 "cause it was a malt." Also cause it was cheap. you could get a quart for like 50 cents
LMAO wtf did we know at that age.
There this chick named Jackie. She used to get us the money for the beer. Real cute chick with these eyes that could make anyone melt just by putting on her lost puppy dog face.
so she would hang outside the strip mall which was about 2 blocks from the brook and hit guys up for change usually with a story of her having lost her bus fare money to get home or needing money to call her mom so she wouldnt get in trouble.
Dont beleive I saw a guy ever not give her some spare change and usually it only took about an hour to get up enough money for a case.
At that point it became Jimmys job to get someone to get the beer for us.
Jimmy was our resident con man and flim flam artist.
We used to joke that he could probably Con the Pope out of the Vatican. He was that good.
So he would con someone into going into the liquer store and getting us the beer and we'd take it and head down the brook.
I say "down" the Brook cause here in Jersey you never go "to" anywhere. Your always going "Down to" whereever your headed.
Example. In Jersey you never go "To the beach" or "to the shore" You always go "Down the shore" and even when your "at the shore" your still "Down the shore"
From there you go "down to the beach" And only when you are actually standing on the beach in the sand are you ever "At the beach" And even then. your "on the beach"
Anyway, Point of the story.
There was this other chick name Laura, I remember sitting there down at the brook watching her drink from the bottle in the firelight and noticing she wasnt drinking it like one would normally drink. She had like half the bottle literally in her mouth guzzling away at it. I pointed it out to a couple of other folks and we teased her about it.
Bout a year later my oh my did she develop that talent into something useful
Much to my delight
