One Summer in Georgia, by Cole Parker

[Rutabaga]

Did the boy leave his T-shirt behind? Will that matter?

R

[Cole Parker]

Good to have questions. Shows one is into the story.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

C

[Merkin]

Trailwise, I imagine the dog has left his mark just about everywhere they've been.

[Rutabaga]

You don't suppose anyone would use, say, an abandoned T-shirt to track fugitives with?

R

[Rutabaga]

“We’ve got company.”

Nothing is ever easy.

R

[Rutabaga]

. . . . I stepped into the void.

"Tune in again next time, boys and girls, for another thrilling episode of 'One Summer in Georgia.' Now this is your announcer, Cliff Hanger, wishing you all a good night."

R

[Merkin]

Quite the decision tree laid out in this one.

[Chris James]

I think Cole is having way too much fun antagonizing the readers, me included. But you can bet everyone will keep on coming back to this story until the last page is posted. Good going, Cole.

[Nigel Gordon]

I think Cole is having way too much fun antagonizing the readers, me included. But you can bet everyone will keep on coming back to this story until the last page is posted. Good going, Cole.

I totally agree, Cole is having far to much fun. I don't mind cliff hangers but have a feeling that Cole is also cutting away at the safety rope and any moment I'm going to find that I am not where I expected to be.

[JamesSavik]

I am enjoying this but I want to point something out.

The South is famous for the Boss Hogg type sheriff however the reality of it is that they are usually very unpopular.

We had one in Warren country some years ago. He was bad news and would set you up to get busted he decided that you had a bad attitude. He owned all the drug sales in the county by busting the competition and taking a piece of the action from his cronies.

The Sheriff planted the seeds for his own destruction by honking off everybody in the county and being arrogant enough to think that it didn't matter.

By their own actions, they create a we-hate-the-sheriff society that will act against him on the sly.

The sheriff that I'm talking about the FBI got interested in him. They put a team with cameras in his next door neighbors house because the Sheriff had busted his neighbors nephew with pot one of his deputies magically found in the kids car. Everybody knew that kid had nothing to do with weed.

Sooner or later you honk off the wrong guy.

[dude]

James,

I think Cole may be pointing out the same thing.

Mike

[Paco]

This one gets our southern stamp of approval, especially Fitz.

[Rutabaga]

I think Colt is proving to be a kindred spirit with our narrator (whatever his real name is). Except the narrator doesn't have a dog following him around.

R

[Rutabaga]

OK . . . but what's the disguise for the dog?

R

[Merkin]

Poodle cut.

[Rutabaga]

"Our stay in Niceville was over."

And an eventful stay it was, to say the least.

R

[Merkin]

That poor dog isn't getting walked very much.

[Cole Parker]

If it were a cat, it would take all sorts of solicitous fussing over. It's a dog. Dogs go with the flow and don't complain.

C

[DesDownunder]

The dog in the house at the back of our place complains all the time about our cat teasing it.

[Cole Parker]

Well, that's another matter entirely. That cat obviously misunderstands its place in the social order of quadrupeds.

C

[Nigel Gordon]

Well, that's another matter entirely. That cat obviously misunderstands its place in the social order of quadrupeds.

C

The cat perfectly understands its position cat owns human, human owns dog!

[dude]

touche'

[Rutabaga]

"He talked a long time. Even said some things I needed to know."

Seems like we readers can see where this is going earlier than the narrator.

More than that I cannot say without risking spoilers. I will say, though, that I was surprised at how neutral and emotionless Colt apparently was when he received certain news in this chapter.

R

[JamesSavik]

Pascagoula, MS is famous for seafood and shipbuilding.

Most of the Israeli navy and a big chunk of the US Navy's Burke destroyers and AEGIS cruisers were built there.

[Rutabaga]

Every time one of these deputies appears on the scene, I can't get rid of the image of Jackie Gleason playing Buford T. Justice in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies.

R