A Friend in Need
March 10, 2021
As a boy with empty pockets, the author took window shopping to new heights, scanning the displays of every sporting goods store in his town.
Normally, I would look away and get back to my business, which in that case was sanding the new starboard oak gunwale we installed on Jerry’s work skiff, but there was something about the man that captured my attention. The fashionably dressed gent did walk down to the second level, and that was when I broke the strict protocol of boys being seen and not heard. Something prompted me to blurt out a greeting.