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Party (Continued from previous page) begin chatting about what they’ve been doing going on and are introduced around. People since they last saw one another. Another couple start talking about jobs, hometowns, children, comes out of the A&P who it turns out knows colleges, whatever. the houseguest and they come over to ask what The mechanic comes out from under the car is going on. Everyone is introduced all around. and says he’s found what’s wrong. But he needs At this point, the mechanic arrives to fix a part. He’s going to go off and get it at his shop things. He also is introduced around. He’s got a and he does, but at the request of what is now tool box and a portable radio, which he says he these ten people, he leaves the portable radio listens to while he works, and so he turns it on there so they can listen to the music until he to a rock and roll station and looks under the gets back. hood and then gets down on his back and goes The A&P is now closed. The lights are turned under the car and he’s there for awhile. off. Nearly all the cars in the lot now clear out, At this point, there are seven people standing leaving the 10 people around the car in the around, and wouldn’t you know, still another center of the lot there by themselves with the three people come out of the A&P. It’s 9 p.m. music, along with the three other cars in the lot A&P is about to close. They see the people of the others nearby. The sun sets. SHOE INN SALE 2012 WK 3 DANS_SHOE-INN DAN'S SUMMER B/W1/2AD 8/20/12 11:24 PM Page 1 standing around and come over to see what’s Walking down the street at this point is
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another couple who see someone they know in the crowd. So they come over too. “Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones now comes on the radio. Dancing begins. Somebody opens the trunk of his car nearby and takes out a Styrofoam cooler for the grocery items that might spoil. Cold beer is put in there to keep them cold. Other cold beer is handed around. Also at this point, folding beach chairs come out and get set up. The mechanic returns. He says he can’t find the part he needs, but will return in the morning when he finds it at another gas station. He offers to take anybody who needs a ride home. Nobody wants to go home. They say they have plenty of cars and can deal with it. The mechanic, seeing what has happened at this point, now graciously offers to leave his radio there and when they are done, put it in the car in the back. Everybody cheers. Then he’s off with his toolbox. The party goes on well into the night. A few others join in. The police come over around 2 a.m. and ask what’s going on and when they learn everybody knows everybody, go off since there are no laws being broken. It’s just a wonderful time and it goes on and on. And that’s the story. And then THIS happened. At 3:30 last Thursday afternoon, I am in my car with my dog driving eastbound on County Road 39. The traffic is wall to wall. About a quarter mile behind me is my wife in her car with Marilyn, a longtime friend of hers from Mill Valley, California. I pass the intersection with North Sea Road. Shortly after that I pass the Hampton Jitney building, and then seeing the traffic is even worse up ahead, make the left on to David White’s Lane to take a back road. But the traffic is bad here too. I am about a mile down David White’s Lane going stop and go through the farm fields when I get an idea. Both my wife and I are driving home to East Hampton. But I need to make some stops for groceries, while she is going direct. It’s a hot day. Maybe she should take the dog. I call her on the cellphone and she agrees this would be a good idea, and so I pull over to the shoulder of the road by a field on the right, tell her exactly where I am, turn off the engine and wait. With the traffic being what it is, I expect she will be along in about 10 minutes. As it’s now getting hot in the car, I put the dog on a leash, hop out and take her for a little walk. She sniffs a few bushes. I decide to walk close to the road just in case my wife doesn’t notice the car. Two minutes into this walk, a grey Prius pulls off into the field in front of my car. Two people are in it. I wonder why they did that. This is a quiet area except for the line of the cars. Then a second car pulls over to park in front of the Prius. The people get out of the first car and it’s people I know, Bob and Ina Caro. They wave, I wave. “We thought that was you,” Bob says. “Everything okay?” “Oh sure,” I say. “I’m just waiting for my wife to come by. She’s in her car, and she’s going to take the dog.” “This is a nice spot,” Bob says, looking around. There’s a red barn about 100 yards off into the field. A man gets out of the (Continued on page 48)