The Day I Saw The Future
I couldn’t believe it. How could I somehow benefit from being able to look into the future?
Prologue:
This story took place in the 1950’s. We might have a bit of trouble readjusting if we returned to that time.
Pay Phones were iPhones, alcohol was our drug and gambling was our video game.
Things were very different then but high school kids have, for the most part, remained the same: problematic.
We were just seniors in high school raising as much hell as we could find. Trying to act older than we should have: Smoking, drinking and gambling — isn’t that what the big guys do?
We all lived in Asbury Park and went to the local high school.
Asbury is a shore town famous for a number of things, not the least of which is Bruce Springsteen. Tourists flood the town in the summer to experience the Atlantic Ocean, wide beaches, excellent dining and all sorts of good, clean, summer family fun.
We guys, of course, lived there all year around and developed a blasé’ attitude to all that good clean family fun. Not cool.
Smoking, drinking and gambling away all the money we earned on our lucrative summer jobs. That was cool.
