Roast Beef and the Pin Ball Machine

There was this cafe where us guys use to go during lunch hour, while going to High School. We would all get a hot roast beef sandwich, you know two pieces of bread with roast beef, mashed potatoes and rich brown gravy, for the price of 50 cents, today you pay around 4 dollars, for same thing and not as good. Any way, there was this pin ball machine in there that you could play, you got so many points by how well you did, which you could use to buy your lunch for free. This after awhile, became a deep mad passion for all of us, for about a year, I did this, until I dropped out of high school. This one guy, who we called big Rudy, he had a special way of eating his roast beef sandwich. You had to scrape away the potatoes, push them aside, then dig into the beef, bread, then eat potatoes last, if you didn't do it this way, he really talked down to you, until we all it dig right, I know really sounds dumb, but you had to know Rudy. Really miss those days, and those guys of being in school, having no problems, except getting home work done, and doing good on those tests. wrote 9-1-08 Memories of East High School Des Moines Iowa, where I went from 1960-61