Let's Talk Concerts

Back in the eighties, while driving a meat truck for Facciola meat, in the employ of my boss Jim Henzi, being the most junior driver I had the oldest truck in the fleet, an old international,( truck #1).



In the course of driving the route, a low tree branch stripped the exhaust pipe and muffler from the refrigeration motor called a "reefer". It was incredibly loud, but being the professional I was, the integrity of the product could not be compromised so I kept the engine blasting away.



I had a delivery to Archbishop Mitty Catholic school, backed into the driveway along the back of the gymnasium. I noticed that there was some other racket going on, but it went away as I was doing paperwork. I looked up a few minutes later and a lot of excitable adults we're outside the truck doing the universal "cut it off" motion of dragging fingers across their throat. I had backed under crank out windows, and it was funneling the noise directly into the auditorium shutting down the local talent that was soon to be famous Huey Lewis and The News.