Paul Pruitt was a cattle buyer and had a feedlot down along the border. Dink had met him, I suppose, hanging out in one coffee shop or the other when he was there working on the water and sewer system in Eagle Pass back in the 60s.

One day Paul invited Dink to fly with him to look at some cattle down at Laredo. Paul flew his own plane. They made it there and took care of the business they needed to and got ready to leave to fly back to Eagle Pass. A rain system was moving in so they decided it best to wait it out, spend the night and go back the next morning.

They headed down and procured a couple of hotel rooms and neither of them drank, so to entertain themselves, decided to take in a movie. Bonnie and Clyde had just hit the theaters.

They call a taxi cab and headed out to see the afternoon matinee. They were a little early so went into the completely empty theater and set down, pretty close up to the screen. He said Ol Paul didn’t see all that good so figured the closer the better. They are sitting there carrying on like a couple of guys might, not paying all that much attention to their surroundings.

The movie started and they watched a long time when a part comes up to where Bonnie and Clyde are held up in a motel room. “You know Clyde never had much luck with the ladies”, Dink would say, telling the story. Well about that time it cuts to a scene where Bonnie gets him in the sack. Then she ducks her head under the covers.

Just as she did Dink pokes Paul with his elbow and says rather loudly “look Paul she’s gonna……..(I’ll let you fill in the blank).

Unbeknownst to either of them, a man and woman had seated themselves on the row behind them. The woman rather exasperated say’s “well, I didn’t come here to be insulted”, with a startled but quick thinking Dink replying, “lady I didn’t either, and if she does it again we’ll both get up and leave”.

He said that pretty well defused the situation as the lady’s companion got a big kick out of the whole thing. But by that time Paul was up at the very back looking down to see what happened next.

Dink said he thought Paul forgot all about his bad eyesight, because he watched the rest of the movie from back there.

With my years of travels with Dink, I’m sure I heard him tell that story a dozen times. It was just as funny every time. The thing about him, he had a hundred stories just about like that one that he used the entertain me and whoever he was with. He was quite the story teller.