Guckin: A True Story, is the fifth short story in the series Doings of Dudley Doolittle
In this edition the character Dudley has the nickname of Guckin
It is true, my friend’s nick name was Guckin and he went on to do some great things in life even though he wasn’t good-looking or well built.
This story is about a time in his youth when he was working his way through college by instructing at a summer camp.
Now Guckin didn’t have a very easy time getting dates with the girls so when he connected with the town beauty he took great pride and pleasure in showing her off as he would drive her about town in his car.
Well it turns out that one night Guckin’s good looking roommate wanted to borrow Guckin’s car for a special date…Guckin just couldn’t refuse and turned over the keys.
Horror of horrors, it turned out that the roommate had taken not only Guckin’s car but he had also taken out Guckin’s girl…Guckin was crushed!
Not one to take these things lightly, Guckin knew he had to take action, and so the plan was hatched.
One thing that Guckin observed was that his roommate was not only good-looking but he was excessively vain and would spend hours primping and combing his wavy thick hair in front of the mirror.
Guckin had it, he was off to the pharmacy to purchase some hair removal cream which he mixed with his roommate's hair cream…the results were like magic and large clumps of his roommate's hair fell out.
The roommate asked Guckin what to do and Guckin told him that he probably wasn’t using enough hair cream.
It worked perfectly well and Guckin was back with his girl friend in no time. Well, the girl friend asked Guckin one day what had happened to the roommate and Guckin told her that he had contracted some unmentionable disease and his hair was falling out so he didn’t want to be seen in public.
The moral of the story is this: You shouldn’t be muckin with Guckin!
John's author's page on Amazon
No comments:
Post a Comment