I want my $2.00!!

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I want my $2.00!!

January 18, 2013 by David Svien

Aaron Trumbull drives hard to the hoop, mere moments before my former video store “assistant” shows him who’s really in charge.

“I bow in your presence, Lord Walstad!!”

“Hercules! Hercules!”

Eat your veggies, get 8 hours a night and learn to dribble with both hands and can grow up to be like Wolf stars (l to r) Julia Felici, Haley Marx and Bessie Walstad.

Eat your veggies, get 8 hours a night and learn to dribble with both hands and you can grow up to be like Wolf stars (l to r) Julia Felici, Haley Marx and Bessie Walstad.

It all comes around.

Back in the days when I was at the second video store — David’s DVD Den — I had an “assistant” who would kick me out of my seat behind the video counter and run the computer and cash drawer for me whenever he came in the store with his family.

This whippersnapper was barely able to look over the counter at the time, but he could drop you off the chair with a well-placed elbow and he was always ankling for free candy for him and his older brother.

“You give me one and him one. It’s $2! You’ll never miss it!!”

He currently owes me $3,912 for candy eaten “on the job.”

It was worth it, though, for two reasons.

One, he ran the counter better than I did. If he had been alive, he would have cleaned up back in the Videoville days, with a bigger customer base to woo with his dimples.

Two, I now see, thanks to photos taken at a recent Boys and Girls Club basketball practice by ace photographer Shelli Trumbull, that my former “assistant” is now a young basketball stud. So, when he hits the NBA, I’m gettin’ my $2 back!!

I’d like to tell you his name, but thanks to rules and regulations, I am only going to print the first names of all 104 athletes who are playing ball for the Boys and Girls Club. So, they get a bit of recognition, which is nice.

And my “assistant?”

Just look for the fast-talking kid who keeps asking everyone, “Hey, you gonna eat that candy bar? Yeah you, buddy! Yeah, I didn’t think so!! Hand it over!!!”

But watch out for the elbow…

The rosters:

K-1 (Pee-Wees)

Stuurman’s Insurance

Lyla
Cole
Jack
Sophia
Ryan

Sherman Pioneer Farms

Peyton
Mia
Quinten
Lance
Andrew

Coupeville Booster Club

Katie
Savina
Zamia
Ethan
Henry
Wyatt
Logan

Coupeville Coffee & Bistro

Lillyanna
Gavin
Elizabeth
Izaac
Nathan

2-3 (Minors)