[Erie, Pennsylvania
Chris Wright, between the his release from the Army in 1971, at the end of his Vietnam tour, and his reactivation into the Armed Forces in 1974, and his Army career, he had met Ms O Day and they had chummed about, living together now and then. She was quite young and he seven years older, and during this time when she was of legal age to live with Chris, she seventeen, moved in. It would prove to be an ongoing entanglement, a moody one, yet for her it was a battle also, not knowing where the moods came from.
During this time, shed break the relationship off a number of times only to return for lack of direction, which was, perhaps an issue on both their parts; yet they would both reunite.
It was in the fall of 1973, while they both were living in Erie, Pennsylvania, by their sisters house, Veronica, that it all came apart. Veronica had invited them up to her house, and in the course of doing so, both sold all their things to start a new life up there. Chris being a traveler at heart grabbed the opportunity. But while living their, and working for Malibu Iron, and then shifting to Pennsylvania Electric, Veronica asked them both to leave their house, having one kid, and one on the way. And so they did, after finding a house a few miles away, things smoothed out a bit. This is also where Chris started to see her peculiarities; her odd moods, behavior, such things he could not account for. At times her moods were up, other times racy, and still on other occasions down right depressing. She had rages like her brother, and her thinking was distorted.
In the mists of not having much money, and Katie wanting to remain in the house at times, Chris adapted a lost police dog, joined the Russian Club, even meeting Jack Benny one night there, just trying to avoid an unpleasant romance, yet not letting go, and not knowing why he wasnt, perhaps he was as ill as her, he concluded somewhere along the way.
Things did get a little bad for them, money wise, so bad once they had to count their pennies and take them to the supermarket to buy some hot dogs, the cashier told them to go to the bank and put them in some penny wrappers, and then shed sell them the hot dogs, in which they did, and the Bank teller told them to go outside the bank and do it, it was too much of a bother to do it inside: put the pennies in the rollers, and they did, and then bring it back in, and then they gave him the pennies, and then they brought the roll of pennies back to the supermarket and bought the hot dogs: it was an odyssey at best.
After a struggling year, he returned with Katie, back to Minnesota, and moved out, finding an apartment of his own, with his friend Kevin, a younger lad than he, but a fine one. They both seemed to have drinking problems during those days, but who was watching, no one so they of course kept on drinking. And their small apartment was quite suitable for tw o bachelors. But Katie kept coming around, trying to fix things up. And Chris for some odd reason didnt put a halt to it, but Kevin tried, telling her to leave Chris alone, and so that broke up Kevin and Chriss relationship.
It was then, in 1974, Chris decided to go back into the Army, build a career, go to college, and become what he wanted to become, all he could become, possibly do some traveling, with the Army paying the way. And he did just that, ending back in Germany, where he had been prior to Vietnam, in 1971, that is to say, he was in Augsburg Germany for ten-months during that year. And so Muter by Dieburg was to be a new site for him, but an old country.
Dennis is putting these short Sketches he did a few years ago, in the order as he did them, although this one, Number 2, would s eem to be the first one. I think there are four, and two linking stories to it, called: The Trials of Ms O'Day. Rosa
See Dennis' web site: http://dennissiluk.tripod.com
Author:: Dennis Siluk
Keywords:: Sketch
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