Him and his jokes.
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Funny, though, him worrying about me getting Mary home safe, when her own mother doesn't worry any.
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We start along toward her house slowly, as there's a good deal of traffic now.
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I'm wondering how to see Mary again without having to ask for her number and phoning and making a date.
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Something about telephoning I don't like.
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Besides, I'd probably go out to a pay phone so the family wouldn't listen, and that'd make me feel stupid to begin with.
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Just then we start rounding the golf course, and I whack the handle bar of my bike and say, "Hey, that's it!"
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"What's it?"
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"Golf. Let's play golf. Not now, I don't mean. Next holiday. We've got Election Day coming up. I'll borrow Pop's clubs and take the subway and meet you here. How about ten o'clock?"
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"Hunh?" Mary looks startled.
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"Well, I suppose I could try, or anyway I could walk around."
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"It's easy. I'll show you."
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The two times I played, I only hit the ball decently about four or five times.
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But the times I did hit it, it seemed easy.
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We get to Mary's house and I put the bikes away and give her back her brother's jacket.
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"I guess I'll go right along. It's getting late. See you Election Day."
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"O.K., bye. Say—thanks for the ferry ride!"
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Ch15. Dollars and Cats
Wednesday night before Thanksgiving I go down to the delicatessen to buy some coke, so I can really enjoy myself watching TV.
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Tom is just finishing work at the flower shop, and I ask him if he wants to come along home.
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"Nah. Thanks. I got to be at work early tomorrow."
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He doesn't sound too cheery.
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"How's the job going?"
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