Mother and I were cruising on Caruthers past the old Central High School when I saw three guys in with a sign in front of them. “They are at little old to be selling Kool-Aid like the Lamkin kids did,” I thought.
I was almost past them when I read the sign, “U HONK WE DRINK.”
I gave them a “Toot! Toot!,” drove on a couple of blocks, then decided this was too good to pass up. I made a right turn onto Thilenius Street, a right onto North Sunset Blvd., a right onto Themis and a right onto Caruthers Ave. to put me within half a block of the guys. Just as I pulled up, a couple of cars gave a honk.
Dustin Miller, Daniel Price and Justin White turned out to be a trio of nice guys. Best part was that they had easy spelling names. “M-i-l-l-e-r?,” I asked. “Nothing all weird like Mueller?” “Nope, just Miller,” he answered.
“OK, so, what’s going on?
Daniel Price said the fridge had a few beers in it and “I’ve been waiting for a sunny day like this for two weeks.”
Justin said he had just come home from work and saw his two roommates sitting in the back yard of 1752 Themis and decided to join them.
Common Spelling Miller didn’t say anything because he was going into the house for another beer run. When he came back, he started dealing out brews: “There’s one for me; there’s one for you, and one for you.”
“Where’s mine?”
He started to hand me a can, but I waved him off.
It sounded like about every third car honked. I suggested they’d do better if they put up signs a little in advance of where they were sitting. I could seeing them considering the idea for about as long as it was worth, then they sat back and waited for whatever toots came their way.
I DID notice that the would take an anticipatory toot swig from time to time if traffic was light.
