A Car By Any Other Name

Periwinkle Chronicles, tales of the citizens of Periwinkle [because all the other colors were already taken] County:

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Randall Nathan was in his usual booth, labeled LJ, at The Good to the Last Slop Coffee Haus and Pig Repair Center, with two crash dummies dressed in snowmobile suits sitting across from him, so that no one would sit down with him, lest he lose points in The Hermudgeon of the Year contest, hermudgeon being a combination of hermit and curmudgeon.

That’s when a clean-shaven man in clean-washed overalls and a long ponytail pulled up into a hairnet, with the word “Mr. Snoodwrench” stenciled on the back, and the name Rex in needlepoint on the front, slouched in and grabbed up a chair from a table and pulled it up to the booth of The Rev. Dr. Randall Nathan, (Retard), which is how they pronounce “retired” in Periwinkle County, or at least that’s what they tell him.

Abbey Rhoad grabbed a cup and the coffee pot with the chartreuse handle and negotiated her way over to booth LJ.

“Is that you, Rex?” asked Abbey.

“What was your first clue?” muttered Randall Nathan.

“How come you’re in here this time of day, Rex?” said Abbey.

“Lost my job.”

“I thought you were working at the Ford garage,” said Randall.

“Yeah, I was. But Stu DeBaker, the owner, got to thinking about my name and decided it was bad publicity. My full name is Rexford Carr.”

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A Golden Persimmon is awarded today to LJ Booth, guitarist supreme, from Scandinavia, WI.

The similarity between the activities in Periwinkle County and events in other places is rarely coincidental.

[“Christ in Winter,” Reflections On Faith For People In The Winter Of Their Years, can be found at http://christinwinter.blogspot.com/]

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