When we first started this game of cat and mouse, give and take, love and loss, it wasn’t that much of a challenge for us.  Only three people ever worked at Barney’s portable spas store at a time, and the summer months were just busy enough to keep them occupied.

Obviously, we asked Barney first, but we had no plans of taking ‘no’ for an answer.  Apparently, he didn’t know of our plans because the first time he caught us, he flipped.  He literally chased us out of his store with a broom.  It was cartoon-like (then again, so were most of the late 80’s and early 90’s).

Being the proud children that we were, we could not let Barney’s actions go unpunished, so the next day we met at the arcade, we plotted to get back at him.  Three of us embarked on a trip to Barney’s, and while two of us darted through the maze of portable hot tubs while Barney gave chase, one of us went covert and vandalized a handful of hot tubs and spas with every vulgarity we knew of at the time.

We did this a couple days a week for a few months, until Barney successfully lobbied the strip mall landlords for a security guard.

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