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114 most ridiculous thing I ever saw." Red sure was right about some stuff. And I could see he v/as aching away about the fact that he couldn't afford any hot dogs and beer to battle this absurdity, and pretty soon he was going to be resenting Big Dick for having money and bringing him here and making him feel like he had nothing and worse offering to buy him things and put him in his &akx debt and worse than that really be a xxx nice guy, too nice to get mad at. That left me. So when Red decided he had to go to the bathroom I went with him. Of course the big xi metal trough was packed. "Well let's just piss in a stall," I said to him, and Red shrugged his shoulders and said okay and I watched him until he finally picked one, being kind of persnickity now about the cleanliness of toilets since he started selling toilet paper, and when he did I went into the one next to him and folded up $150 and slipped it behind his toilet. "Hey," I said to him. "What's that behind your toilet." "What?" said Red. "I think there's some money behind your toilet." "Right," said Red, "and my shit don't stink." But he put his hand back there and came up v/ith the money nonetheless. Well Red came out of that toilet looking pretty happy. He patted me on the back and said, "Hey, you were right for a change, yessir, boy, were you ever right." "Yeah?" I said." "Yeah," said Red. "How much was it?" "None of your god-damn business," said Red. But he softened up again real quick. V/e stopped at the concession and got a dozen hot dogs with everything, axaka a ton of fries, peanuts, a cherry pop, and three beers. "Hey," said Red when we got back to the seats, "what do you think, I found some money." V/e passed around the dogs and food and drinks. "No shit," said Big Dick. "Sure did," said Red. "Guess these tickets are lucky all the way around, right Jarvis?" Red patted me on the back and we all laughed. Red to!4 -feh.9 ,^-y g"^t how he found the money and even gave me credit.