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!
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