Reply #197: So, I'm tendin' bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesday...

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MAN
... So, I'm tendin' bar there at
Ecklund && Swedlin's last Tuesday
and this little guy's drinkin'
and he says, 'So where can a guy
find some action - I'm goin' crazy
down there at the lake.' And I
says, 'What kinda action?' and he
says, 'Woman action, what do I
look like,' And I says 'Well,
what do I look like, I don't
arrange that kinda thing,' and he
says, 'I'm goin' crazy out there
at the lake' and I says, 'Well,
this ain't that kinda place.'

GARY
Uh-huh.

MAN
So he says, 'So I get it, so you
think I'm some kinda jerk for
askin',' only he doesn't use the
word jerk.

GARY
I unnerstand.

MAN
And then he calls me a jerk and
says the last guy who thought he
was a jerk was dead now. So I
don't say nothin' and he says, 'What
do ya think about that?' So I
says, 'Well, that don't sound like
too good a deal for him then.'

GARY
Ya got that right.

MAN
And he says, 'Yah, that guy's dead
and I don't mean a old age.' And
then he says, 'Geez, I'm goin'
crazy out there at the lake.'

GARY
White Bear Lake?

MAN
Well, Ecklund && Swedlin's, that's
closer ta Moose Lake, so I made
that assumption.

GARY
Oh sure.

MAN
So, ya know, he's drinkin', so I
don't think a whole great deal of
it, but Mrs. Mohra heard about the
homicides out here and she thought
I should call it in, so I called
it in. End a story.

GARY
What'd this guy look like anyways?

MAN
Oh, he was a little guy, kinda
funny-lookin'.

GARY
Uh-huh - in what way?

MAN
Just a general way.

GARY
Okay, well, thanks a bunch, Mr.
Mohra. You're right, it's probably
nothin', but thanks for callin'
her in.

MAN
Oh sure. They say she's gonna
turn cold tomorrow.

GARY
Yah, got a front movin' in.

MAN
Ya got that right.