Ice Cream and Coffee can be Dangerous !!

Hey Folks –

This morning I read about a man who had recently bought a laptop computer and had started using his lunch hour to sit in his car outside a coffee house checking his email via the webwaves emanating from the coffee establishment. After about a week of this he was accosted by policemen asking him who he was “spying” on. He was arrested and fined (as I remember) $400.00.

Later today I had a few minutes to kill before heading to my friend Pete’s for some recording; so, I stopped at the Dairy Queen for a Sunday (yum, yum: chocolate sauce, marshmallow, and crushed peanuts!!! What, when I was a kid, we called a “Jack & Jill”).

Anyway, I had been listening to the local public radio show interviewing a Brit living here and discussing the effort to contact extra-terrestrials. When the nice young Dairy Queen girl asked, “Is that for here or to go?” I thought, "I’ll take it to the car and listen to more of the space-talk." So, I said, "To go."

Well, there I was, sitting in the parking lot of the Dairy Queen eating my “Jack & Jill,” when it suddenly dawns on me that I could be arrested!! I had screwed the state out of its 15 cents of sales tax, and the gendarmes could appear at any moment!!!

I scooted down in the seat, nonchalantly started the car, and got the hell out of there!!

Thank god Columbus’s finest were too overworked harassing Mexicans (it was the West Side) to notice my skullduggery. Next time I’ll either stay inside the Queen or drive to the Steak ’n’ Shake parking lot next door to enjoy my treat.

- Uke Man