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To: Hot Tabasco
We had a small-time mobster for a neighbor 2 doors away in a Dallas suburb. I never really knew him, but one night my doorbell rang. I opened the door, and one of the weirdest looking couples I ever saw stood there, silent for a moment. Then the man said "We're looking for Eddie". I told him Eddie lived over in the second house. I sometimes still get goose bumps wondering what I could have done if he had a shotgun.

One Saturday afternoon Eddie's girlfriend came looking for my wife, who was a nurse. I told her my wife was at work at the hospital. Girlfriend went across the street, and the guy over there was drafted to drive Eddie in his Rolls to the mob doctor to get his hand stitched up after cutting it with the hedge trimmer.

On an Easter Sunday afternoon Eddie was using spray cans to paint a big Lincoln in his driveway a different color while a Dallas police helicopter circled overhead, watching the paint job in progress. Life as Eddie's neighbor wasn't exactly dull. He moved to Houston after defaulting on his mortgage on the house, and we never heard of him again.

44 posted on 08/13/2011 5:35:03 PM PDT by 19th LA Inf
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To: 19th LA Inf
He moved to Houston after defaulting on his mortgage

LOL....I guess your description of Eddie as "smalltime" was right....Yo, Vinnie! Yo, Rico!

50 posted on 08/13/2011 5:41:54 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Obama Voters: Jose Baez wants YOU for his next jury pool.......)
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