The daylight hours flew by most likely because our poor livers couldn't dilute all the alcohol. Man all the partying at night was starting to wear me out....by day 3 it felt normal to sleep in till 12pm..work your ass off all day and finally take your first break at 1am when the park closed...bloody slave labor....more like child labor...Then we would break out the booze. One night--morning one of the Kennedy road guys was in our trailer drinking...we were all baked and this guy wouldn't go back to his trailer..finally he leaves...we are all passing out when he reappears entering the trailer again..he hands one of the guys a beer...and says here you go...finish this one beer and I promise I will leave...so the guy goes to take a swig and he feels the bottle is warm,,, he spits it out and says what the f..k you pissed in this ...didn't you...well with that the guys is all proud of himself --I lean over my wooden bunk and call him a low life piece of shit..who would piss in a bottle of beer and then offer it to someone to drink...with that one of the older guys finally kicked his ass out of our trailer....Morning came and and went we were all greeted with our cheery bossman Ted..."get your f...king asses up--- drink all night is fine but be ready to work the next day."I wanted to ask him how his back was...mine was killing me sleeping on a wooden bunk is losing its zest and what made it worst was knowing that Ted was all refreshed sleeping in a nice comfy hotel bed..
The rest of the tent staff were getting along fine...I really liked this girl Sue..and she seemed to like me also..we were hitting it off really good...she and I were slowly shutting out everyone else making our world smaller...Ted even saw her hanging around my pop machine so he ordered her to waitress on the other side of the tent...didn't matter though she still came to my side to get the drinks customers ordered...even though the other pop guy was closer. The low life that pissed in the beer was giving me the hairy eye-ball ....I just gave it back to him...I then asked him why he would do that to a fellow Kennedy house resident...he told me to go f..k myself...by this time it was known between both tents what he did....everyone was giving the guy shit.....he also seemed to be jealous of Sue paying attention to me also...He was showing her the American coins he got from the customers and he said that for every American coin he would take and replace with a Canadian one....Somehow this seemed like stealing ....I questioned him as to why he felt that he could do that...he said that Ted wasn't getting ripped off...he wanted so much for the food so he got the price he.wanted....and the customers paid for the food and they paid ..so they got what they paid for...he was just replacing the American coins with the Canadian one..and would wrap the coins up and would make extra money once he cashed them at the bank...Well he seemed all proud of himself again with this little con...we all thought it was too much work for the rewards...
Sue was over at my pop machine again...chatting while suppertramp was blasting ...my fillings seemed to be getting lose with every start of bloody well right so now they seemed to be floating in my mouth as the album looped again....My mom gave me a 50 cent piece ..I carried with me kinda as my good luck charm...I pulled it out showing Sue how it was working as it caused us meet...the beer pissing guy also saw me pull out the coin...said hey where did you get that...I said my mom gave it to me...why? He then said most likely I stoled it...most likely some customer paid for their pop with it and I stuck it in my pocket.....I said just because he was a low life criminal doesn't mean everyone was....with that he shut up.....Ted seemed to stick around tonight instead of heading out to the hotel....he waited till all the tables were cleaned then had everyone gather around....he said that he had found out that someone was stealing and fired their ass...Everyone looked around and and took note of who was missing....it was one of his set-up/tear down and maintenance guys.We all knew of him, but no one really knew him...he was kinda of quiet..the only time I remembered him was when there was a wind storm and it was so windy that the tents were ripping, so he suggested that they move the trailers to block the wind this idea saved the tents...Well with one man short we all would have to take up the slack ....so we all had to put in more effort...With that he said meeting over...tear down tomorrow night....after the fair closes...we can sleep while on the road...because we should be rested up so when we get to the nest fair we set-up because there was no way he was going to be shelling out money for motel rooms........
The next day...Ted was arrived early he called another meeting and he this time asked me where I got my 50 cent piece...I said I got it from my Mom,,,, and it was my good luck charm...he said yeah right...He said that I would be going back to Toronto after tear-down...if I didn't hand it over to him....I said it would be a could day in hell before I give it to him....He said thats fine...I will be going home and He wasn't going to cover my plane fare home...and because I didn't last the whole season...I would have to pay for my plane fare out here....therefore I wouldn't be getting any pay...I again said that I didn't steal from him...that the coin was mine ,,,but he insisted he knew he was right............Sue also knew that I didn't steal it...and tried to step in to talk to Ted...but he said what is going on here...He said that I should keep my girlfriend quiet or she too will be fired too...With that everyone worked silently...tension was in the air....Ted could see that we all were starting to whisper and everyone was starting to look him straight in the eye...for a boss that ruled by fear he could see that he was about to have a mutiny on his hands...the only one that was working was beer bottle pissing guy...he said something to Ted and Ted said shut up you idiot this all started with you....damn beer bottle pisser set me up--shit!!....Ted started to yell and treat everyone like shit...finally Sue said lets leave...So I got my clothes and we left....We got on the bus and Sue reached over and held my hand and said its ok..you will see my dad will fix everything...We arrived at her home in no time...It was huge...I asked her...you guys rich ?? She said they do pretty good, her dad works for the government. I asked her why she had to work
