Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)

hungry or not we couldn’t let him see we didn’t think what he said was funny. “But don’t let that worry you all none,” he went on. “Why at our next stop there’s a little cafe that serves the best five cent cup of coffee in the country. And they have roast-beef sandwiches that are a whole meal by themselves. It’s only a ten minute stop, but I’ll have the porter get off and get what you want.” We ordered nine roast beefs, six Cokes, some milk and candy bars. “Excuse me,” I said, “but just how long is it until we get to that stop?” “Well, let’s see,” he said, taking a big gold watch out of his pocket. “It’s now 11:32. Train’s due in there at 4:30 — if we’re on time.” “Four-thirty tomorrow morning!” “Yep,” he grinned. We headed back to the pullman car. Five hours until mealtime. I climbed into the upper berth intending to keep myself awake by practicing my guitar. But when one of the guys handed it up to me, there was no room to move my arms. So I gave up that idea. But I was too hungry to sleep and decided to pull up the window shade and watch the towns go by. And I just sat there, making up crazy names for the places we passed. Then I got tired of that and concentrated on looking out at the tiny farms, wondering what sort of people lived in the houses and why so many stories were told about farmers’ daughters. Then, somehow, all my thoughts kept turning into the image of a big roast-beef sandwich, mixed up with a picture of that blue-eyed girl in the checked dress, offering it to me, begging me to eat. . . . “Better get up, we’ll be there in ten minutes.” I felt someone shaking me. I turned over, mumbled something about not wanting any old beef sandwich, and went back to sleep. “No. sir,” the porter said, shaking me again. “It’s not ten minutes to the sandwiches, it’s ten minutes ’til your station!” I opened one eye and looked out. The sun was streaming in. I must have fallen sound asleep! “I sure want to thank you for the dinner,” the porter was saying. “You’re welcome,” I muttered. “Dinner? What dinner?” Suddenly I realized what he was saying. “Why me and the conductor just couldn’t let all nine roast beefs go to waste; so we divided them between us and ate them. We tried to get you up, but you were beyond wakin’.” I threw on my clothes. I was in Minnesota! We were scheduled to play three shows at the twin cities (St. Paul-Minneapolis) . I grabbed for my electric razor and gave myself a quick shave. And was I hungry! I guess I’ve made these stories sound like pretty good fun. Touring is, at times, although, as I said, it can get mighty lonely. And so it would be great to have a girl to date in each town I go to, not any big romance or anything like that, just a nice girl to go to a show with, to take a drive with, or to talk to. Someone to tell me, “Gee, the show was good, Rick.” It would mean so much. 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