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By Steve On The Road
This months featured recycler is:
"The Last Call
Saloon-Billiards-Bait-N-Tackle {BB&T}"
 Bo Collins insures that every aluminum can's popped top goes in his
giant-sized tips pickle jar, whether the can walks or not. Bo would
like to remind the public just how important recycling is: "If you
just look around here, you can see that I'm recycling all kinds of
things. Take this jar of pickled eggs. They used to be hard-boiled
eggs and now they're pickled eggs. I've had to raise the price from
fifty cents to a dollar per egg, just because they're not selling
too well. I'm also running a combo pickled egg and kosher dill
special, that will only set you back a dollar-fifty, if you order in
the next sixty days. And I'll soon be adding pickled pigs feet for
ten ninety-five, because that would be considered an entree."
Bo also stressed how every fisherman should be taking advantage of
his selection of gourmet jelly worms before he may be forced to
raise the price on them. "In our market driven economy," says Bo, "I
can't afford to undersell myself." Then he relayed to me the story
about how his individual cigarette sales picked up, only after he
raised the price to fifty cents per from a quarter. "You can't
nickel and dime people," Bo said, "I think it's because of the new
math, but they expect to pay more if they want to have a good time.
Just look at how much stuff I can't give away! You just can't get
worms like I have at just any joint."
But Bo promised that his #8 Dale Earnhardt koozees would remain at
three dollars because of the sentimental value attached to #3.
Bo would also like to educate any new would-be customers that
billiards means pool, and to one certain individual that copped one
of his cue balls, Bo says that she can just scratch from now on.
Bo's Last Call, BB&T, hopes you get what you pay for, and pay for
more than you can get, too, if it makes you happy. For
discriminating connoisseurs, Bo is proud to offer Negro Modello in
the bottle. Bo warns everyone that it is expensive in advance, but
only costs two fifty a bottle if you get it before he improves on
it. "Some folks say 'once you go dark, you go darker when you go,'"
says Bo.
You can thank me later. I'm Steve, retired U.S. Navy, twenty-two
years, and counting.
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