The Bully (2)

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I walked into the Huddle House restaurant in Brunswick, Georgia and sat down at the counter as all of the booths were taken. I picked up a menu and began to look at the various items trying to decide if I wanted to order breakfast or just go ahead and eat lunch.

     "Excuse me," said someone, as they touched me on the shoulder.

     I looked up and turned to the side to see a rather nice looking woman standing before me.

     "Is your name Roger by any chance?" she asked me.

     "Yes." I responded, looking rather confused as I had never seen the woman before.

     "My name is Barbara and my husband is Tony," she said, pointing to a distant table near the door leading into the bathrooms.

     I looked in the direction that she was pointing but I did not recognize the man who was sitting, alone at the table.

     "I'm sorry. I'm, ah. I'm ah, confused. I don't think that I know you guys. But my name is Roger. Roger Kiser," I told her.

     "Tony Claxton. Tony from Landon High School in Jacksonville, Florida?" she asked me.

     "I'm really sorry. The name doesn't ring a bell." I said.

     She turned and walked back to her table and sat down. She and her husband immediately began talking and once in a while I would see her turn around in her seat and look directly at me.

     I finally decided to order breakfast and a cup of decaffeinated coffee. I sat there continually racking my brain trying to remember who this Tony guy was.

     "I must know him," I though to myself. "He recognizes me for some reason." I picked up my coffee up and took a sip. All of a sudden it came to me like a flash of lighting.