Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Where's my pet monkey Mimi?" squeaked an elderly woman wrapped in a bright myself kimono. "Someone's stolen my wallet, and I can't buy myself a train ticket home," moaned a lanky teenager. "My man's drunk again and beating me!" screamed a woman over the telephone. [Help!] Hayaku...
...light of the events which unfold. "Monster Deal" ends in bitterness and anger when the female intruder all but kidnaps Karen, the teenage paper-delivery girl the narrator is attracted to; the two women go off laughingly together on Karen's Friday afternoon paper route and return dead drunk on Saturday morning, having obviated Karen's Friday night dinner date--the first--with the narrator. This story, too, begins familiarly...
...South Dakota of passing a bad check for $100. The crime ordinarily carries a maximum sentence of five years and a fine of $5,000. But Helm had six prior felony convictions (three for burglary, one for grand larceny, one for obtaining money under false pretenses and one for drunk driving), so he was sentenced under a repeat-offender statute. The judge imposed the maximum punishment allowable, life imprisonment without possibility of parole...
...took care of their own. At midnight, with beer fairly boiling on the hot sidewalks, you'd see a sarge walking a sloppy corporal back to the ship, the sarge's hand cupping the drunk's elbow to steady him but not to make too much of a spectacle of it. The sight was almost tender...
...color of diaper rash, you met Barbara Somebody from Tampa. She wasn't Cheryl Tiegs, but she was a woman. You were reminded a little of someone else, but that was in another country. You held her hand. She wore your hat. Then she got too drunk to talk to and you left her at Rick's Place, a saloon where Martinez was about to lose control over Seagram's Seven and Seven...