“Bob worked at The Dairy. Not a dairy dairy with cows and milking devices and such, but a place we called The Dairy, because, I think, its official name was something like The Something-View Drive-Thru Market and Dairy. This was the mid-1980s, when there were still drive-thru markets…”
I don’t write much nonfiction these days, but I have a short essay-ish thing over at BULL. It’s called “Bob, or When the Nights Are Both Long and Short,” and you can read it here.
If you went to high school with me, you might recognize some of the names and places.