Saturday, August 23, 2014

Orvis Encounters PPB (perfectly prepared bacon)

     Orvis Alvester Windsor III lived in Muscle Shoals Alabama.  Orvis Alvester was also one of the first to encounter Leroy the bacon shedding hog.  Orvis Alvester loved to fish.  Better said Orvis Alvester really loved to fish.  Orvis Alvester would tell people when he first met them to just call him Al.  Then he would tell them a fishing story.  Al was a math teacher at the local high school.  In the spring of 1965 like many years before he would stop by an oxbow lake on the way to school.  He didn't do this every day but did a couple of times a week.  It was March of that year when Al got his first Johnson Century fishing reel.  He was sure it would catch a state record Bass.  At 7:10 Al realized he had better get a move on it,  to get to the schoolhouse on time.  He hadn't caught a fish but had hooked a good one, maybe that state record.  As Al was putting his rod and reel in the turtle hull of his car he felt a little pain in his stomach.  Something about the cup of black coffee, link of sausage, and the pint of Tang didn't seem to be settling  just right.  He knew 2 of the cafeteria ladies giant rolls would fix what ever was wrong but it was a long time until 12:45 lunch.  As Al reach for the car door handle he saw out of the corner of his eye 4 pieces of perfectly prepared bacon hanging on the limbs of a huckleberry bush.  Orvis Alvester ate all 4 of them.  His stomach quit hurting and he smiled every minute until lunch time,  even through the algebra I class with Ricky Bohunkus on the front row.

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