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Entrepreneurs

William Ogden Haynes

The two young sailors made the hour drive from Chase Naval Air Station
to the city of Corpus Christi, Texas in forty-five minutes. The convertible
top of the Triumph Spitfire was down and the warm wind from the gulf
drowned out the music on the tinny radio, but they didn’t care. All they

could talk about was getting drunk and seeing some strippers. South Alameda
boulevard was lined with trees whose palm fronds waved like blades of
swords. And just outside the Cove Club, they met a man resembling Colonel
Sanders, who introduced himself as Sweet Daddy. He opened his coat to

reveal pint bottles of rot-gut whiskey in small silk pockets in the lining.
The sailors bought a bottle before going into the club and drank half of it
on the street, to save money on drinks once they were inside. The club was
dark and smoky and the boys took seats at the bar, upon which an exotic

dancer named Barbarella was performing. She was topless, and dancing
with a large, pink feathered boa around her shoulders that she used to
alternately hide and expose her ample breasts. Occasionally, she ran the
garment between her legs like dental floss. As the sailors watched in

amazement, a single pink feather detached from the boa and dropped
to the bar like a bomb, instead of floating down as feathers typically do.
The boys hypothesized that it fell so fast because it was soaked with
bodily fluids. It was then that they had their brilliant idea, at least it

seemed so, through the haze of intoxication. One of the sailors grabbed
the feather and put it in his pocket, to take back to the barracks at the end
of the evening. And there, they would wake up their sleeping comrades
and charge them a dollar each to sniff their prize. Sadly, the boys didn’t

earn a dollar that night because they overestimated the depths to which
even the most grizzled and salty sailor would sink. So, they ended up
sitting on the lawn in front of the barracks, under the stars with their
feather, finishing-off half a pint of whiskey, courtesy of Sweet Daddy.

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