The End of the Kona Ice Saga

This certainly makes me want to join the wrestling team!

The Adventures of Richard Garrettson

The Kona Days

Vol III "The Final Run"

Fall arrived, and with it came El Nino.  The snow cone business that relies on sunny days and overheated children was crippled by the cold temperatures and rain.  Richard was working three days a week if he was lucky and on his days off, he was stuck inside.  The bee population in North America was dropping, and Richard liked to think it was partly thanks to him.  

Times were dark.  The sought after Saturday shifts at the flag football field, turned into boring, cold, pointless endeavors.  You know the saying, "He's so good, he could sell ice to an eskimo."  I think it should be, "He's so good, he can sell a snow cone to a blonde Texas housewife during El Nino, who isn't used to the cold so she doesn't dress warmly enough and when she sees a snow cone truck with a cartoon penguin on it, thinks she ought to ask if they sell hot cocoa, then gets indignant when they don't, and feels that she should tell the salesman that no one is going to buy a snow cone on a day like this, as if he is out there selling snow cones by choice and not because his boss told him to."

Richard was ready for a change.  The Kona experience was a great adventure but it was a temporary solution that was coming to an end.  Richard and Begonia would soon be on their way back to Pittsburgh and the Kona Crew would find new members in the spring.

The long car ride back gave the couple plenty of time to talk about their hopes and dreams.  Begonia talked about different jobs she would like to have and cities she would like to live in, Richard talked about cartoons.  He decided that when he got home, he would create a website to display his portfolio to the world.  He would then send the link to his website to newspapers and magazines and before long he would be the most influential cartoonist of our generation probably.  They got back to Pittsburgh, Richard bought a tablet so he could play around with drawing digitally, and he got back to the  drawing board, A.K.A. his desk.