The first live show I ever saw was the comedy duo Cheech & Chong at Toronto’s Massey Hall, circa 1974. My buddy Frank D’Lazzaro’s older brother Ricky scored the highly coveted tickets from his biker drug dealer. As I recall, I’d never laughed so hard in my life. Mind you, Ricky got us so high on elephant weed almost everything was funny. Not so funny was the long-haired dude seated in front of us who accidentally snorted two-hundred-dollars’ worth of angel dust. Someone foaming at the mouth from an overdose and being stretchered off was also a first for me.
Salvatore Difalco lives in Toronto, Canada. His short stories have appeared in a number of journals.