The cool taste of menthol Another tale about Dan Hunter

When  nylon shirts first came out, the material wasn’t smooth, it had bubbles embossed in it and those shirts were the hottest damn things you could put on your body, like the first clear plastic car seat covers. You started to sweat at the mere sight of ’em. The cool thing to do in those days was to roll up a pack of cigarettes  in the sleeve of short sleeve shirts. As a teenager Dan came home one night, not realizing that his daddy was still up and that he had forgotten to take his cigarets out of his sleeve. Dan’s daddy saw the cigareetts and said”well I see that you’ve started smoking”. Dan couldn’t deny it and said “yes sir”. Mr. Hunter said “well let’s go in the fireplace room and smoke awhile. I don’t know much about cigarettes, buy I remember they were Kools  and had a menthol filter or something that was supposed to make them special, but from all accounts a body could overdose on ’em.. Dan’s daddy made him smoke the whole pack that night. Dan said that he thought that every one he  smoked would be last one he had to smoke, but he was wrong, they sat there until he had smoked the whole pack and the menthol had done a job on his lips and mouth to the point that he could hardly eat for three days.  Oh, how smart we were at that age.

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