George V. Higgins character comes to life at Logan Airport
By adamg - 3/19/09 - 7:35 pm
So there I was, sitting outside the barber shop in Terminal C, today, waiting for my wife. An older gentleman was getting his hair cut. And in a booming voice, he told the barber how much he'd spent in parking today after driving down from Manchester- what with a trip to a hospital off Brookline Avenue, lunch and then the airport. He sighed:
I'd take the rattler out to the airport if I could.
The rattler! I didn't know anybody still called the subway that!
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Try to remember
Did have an onion on his belt?
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Did he have an onion on his belt... oh, nevermind.
Ratt-luh
Ah, the rattler...a lot of older people on the South Shore still call it that, including my dad. Then again, he also eats spuckies and gets visibly upset if he forgets to DVR Saturday morning candlepin.