JUST BEFORE YOU RUN INTO THE CORNER STORE THERE WAS THIS LITTLE PLOT OF LAND WITH WOODS THAT RAN ALL ALONG THE BACK OF THE HOUSING COMPLEX. RIGHT IN FRONT WAS THIS BIG TREE.. THIS IS WHERE ALL THE DRUNKS AND HUSTLERS HUNG OUT, BACK THEN EVERYONE HUNG TOGETHER THEY WERE NOT PICKY LIKE NOW. REMEMBER MA TOLD ME DON'T BE DOWN THERE WITH JIMMY ANYMORE SO I FOUND A NEW PLACE TO HANG UP UNDER THE BIG TREE, I WAS THE RUNNER IF ANYONE WANTED SOMETHING FROM THE CORNER STORE I'D GO GET IT. JIMMY KIND OF PUT ME DOWN BECAUSE HE WAS GETTIN THAT ASS JUMP ON CAUSE MA BEAT HIM LIKE A HEBREW SLAVE AND DUDES WAS TELLING HIM HE WAS WRONG FOR DOING THAT AND BEING STINGY WITH MY CUTS. THEY CALLED ME LITTLE MAN CAUSE I WAS 10 AND TRYING TO BE ABOUT IT. SO MR.JOHNNY TAKE A LIKING TO ME AND EVERY DAY AFTER SCHOOL, I'D GO HOME PUT MY BOOKS AWAY AND HEAD ON DOWN TO THE BIG TREE. NOW THEY WERE DOWN THERE DOING ALL SORTS OF THINGS THIS WAS BACK ABOUT 3 YEARS BEFORE THE LOTTERY CAME OUT AND I WAS YOUNG AND DIDN'T KNOW THAT MR. JOHNNY WAS THE NUMBERS MAN HE JUST SEEMED COOL, HE DIDN'T DRINK AND HE SMOKED LITTLE CIGARS, HIS CLOTHES WERE LIKE THE BUMS PUT HE ALWAYS KEPT A POCKET OF MONEY AND KNEW EVERYBODY. I CALLED HIM MISTER BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE DID AND I FELT IN SOMEWAY HE DESERVED THAT RESPECT.AFTER ABOUT 2 WEEKS MR. JOHNNY ASKED ME TO DO SOMETHING I THOUGHT IT WAS STRANGE BUT I KNEW WHO HE WAS PLUS MA KNEW HIM TOO. HE SAID LIL MAN RUN THIS OVER TO THE LADY ON THE SECOND FLOOR MS. DEBORAH YOU KNOW HER RIGHT? DIDN'T FIND OUT UNTIL LATER THAT MS. DEBORAH HAD HIT FOR 100 DOLLARS. BECAUSE SHE CAME AROUND AND SAID HERE I WON'T TELL YOUR MOMMA AND THANK YOU. SHE GAVE ME 3 DOLLARS AND PATTED ME ON MY HEAD WALKED AWAY LAUGHING. NOW I WAS OK WITH ALL OF THAT UNTIL FRIDAYS ROLLED PAST AND PEOPLE STARTED GETTING REAL ROWDY UP UNDER THE BIG TREE, DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND I GUESS I NEVER WILL BUT THAT EVENING EVERYONE WAS REAL DRUNK AND I KNEW MA WAS ABOUT TO COME HOME SO MY TIME WAS RUNNING THIN. JIMMY WAS STILL A FIXTURE HE JUST DRUNK A WHOLE LOT LESS , I GUESS MA BEATING THAT ASS MADE HE WISE UP. SO 3 OF JIMMY'S BUDDY'S WERE PASSED OUT BACK IN THE WOODS THAT'S WERE THEY WENT WHEN THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT HOME. USUALLY ABOUT 2 OR 3 I THINK THEY'D GET THE ONES WHO WERE TO DRUNK UP AND GET THEM HOME. SO JIMMY SAYS HEY LIL MAN YOU THINK YOU CAN DO THIS I SAID WHAT? GO IN SAM'S POCKET WITHOUT WAKING HIM UP AND YOUNG NAIVE ME SAID WHY? HE SAID ANYTHING YOU GET JUST GIVE ME SOME. SHYYYYYT! I WAS GAME SO I CREEP BACK IN THE WOODS WHERE SAM WAS AND POCKED HIM WITH A STICK HIS ASS WAS OUTED JIMMY IS STANDING ABOUT 5 FEET BACK WHISPERING GO HEAD NOW SAM WASN'T A LITTLE GUY SO I GO IN HIS BACK POCKET NO WALLET NOTHING AND JIMMY SAYS YOU GOT TO TURN HIM OVER BOY! SO I ROLLED JIMMY OVER AND IN HIS FRONT POCKET HE HAD ABOUT 200 IN 20"S. SO I GRAB THE MONEY AND RUN ALL THE WHILE NO ONE WATCHING BUT JIMMY, HE SNATCHES ME WHEN I TRY TO RUN PAST AND SAYS HEY WHERES MINE . I JUST THREW HIM ABOUT HALF AND RAN HOME HOPING NO ONE ELSE SAW ME CAUSE I KNEW IF THEY DID I'D CATCH MORE THEN A ASS WHIPPING. I DIDN'T GO BACK DOWN THERE FOR ABOUT A WEEK, WASN'T GOING TO GO BACK EVER TO DAM SCARED THAT SOMEONE SAW ME OTHER THAN JIMMY. BUT ABOUT 2 WEEKS LATER MA SENT ME TO THE STORE AND I RAN INTO MR. JOHNNY HE SAYS HEY LIL MAN WHERE YOU BEEN, I LIED TO HIM AND TELL HIM MA DIDN'T WANT ME DOWN THERE ANYMORE THE FACT OF THE MATTER MY MOTHER NEVER KNEW, BUT MR. JOHNNY KNEW AND HE SNATCH ME UP AND TOOK ME IN BACK OF THE STORE AND TOLD ME SO, HE SAID I COULD'VE GOTTEN MY ASS CUT UP FOR FUCKING WITH PEOPLES MONEY LIKE THAT AND I WASN'T NEVER TO DO IT AGAIN HE TOLD ME I NEVER HAVE TO STEAL MONEY IS THERE YOU JUST GOT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET IT.HE ASKED WHO PUT THE IDEA INTO MY HEAD AND WHO HELPED ME I SAID NO BODY, THAT'S WHEN HE GRABBED ME BY THE SHIRT AND MADE ME STOP LIEING AND I TOLD HIM WHO IT WAS.HE JUST SAID OK AND AFTER THAT HE SAID GO ON COME SEE ME IN A FEW DAYS. I WAS SCARED TO DEATH DIDN'T KNOW IF HE WAS GOING TO TELL MA OR NOT. HE NEVER DID AND MA NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I WONDER TO THIS DAY HOW MANY TIMES PEOPLE HAVE SAID SOMETHING TO HER ABOUT ME AND SHE JUST KEPT QUIET. SO AFTER ABOUT ANOTHER WEEK I GO BACK DOWN TO THE TREE AND NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING EXCEPT HEY LIL MAN WHERE YOU BEEN? JUST TOLD THEM ALL HAD TO DO SCHOOL WORK.THEY WERE COOL AFTER ACOUPLE OF DAYS I NOTICES I HADN'T SEEN JIMMY. I JUST KEPT QUIET ABOUT IT , BUT I HAD TO KNOW SO WHILE WE WERE WAITING FOR THE SCHOOL BUS I SAW STANLEY AND I JUST BLURTED OUT WHERE IS JIMMY I AIN'T SEEN HIM. STANLEY WAS THE EARLY MORNING DRUNK HE WAS THERE WHEN WE GOT ON THE SCHOOL BUS , HE WAS SOBER THEN BUT BY THE TIME WE GOT HOME HE WAS DRUNK AND DANCING IN THE STREET EVERYDAY I CAN REMEMBER. DIDN'T NEED I STOP SIGN STANLEY STOP TRAFFIC LIKE CLOCK WORK EVERYDAY.STANLEY TELLS ME THAT ALL THE DUDES BEAT HIM BADLY AND RAN HIM AWAY FROM HERE BECAUSE HE STOLE MONEY. I WAS LIKE YOU SURE HE SAID YES BECAUSE MR.JOHNNY TOLD THEM IT WAS HIM. NEVER SAW JIMMY AGAIN AND I NEVER STOLE AGAIN EITHER!!!!!! SO THE TRUE DEFINITION OF ROLLING A DRUNK IS YOU LITERALLY HAVE TO ROLL HIM OVER TO SEE WHAT'S IN HIS POCKETS, AND IN THE PROCESS OF ALL THAT TRY NOT TO GET CAUGHT
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