Popo’s Friend

By Gloria, January 26, 2020 — Before meeting Popo, I was dating his friend. We met down in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. On our way back to the hotel, we were waiting for Popo to get out of the car. After a while, he told us to go on without him. The next time I met him was when I was at a dance with my friends. He said hello and asked me to go out that day. I told him to give me a buzz since I lived in Paterson and he lived in Hoboken, so there was some distance between us. He showed up in a blue Oldsmobile while smoking a pipe and he thought he was a big shot. I said, “Oh God,” because I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. He said that I was a cheap date since I didn’t drink. We went out for a year or so after that. I never saw the other guy again.