They opened a chain tire store out on Sterriman, by 96, next to the truck stop, but if you were from south Massana County, you bought your tires from Superior, owned by the Murphy family.
Joe Murphy Senior was getting up there, so people dealt with one of his sons, Vito or Joe, Junior.
If you looked carefully at Joe Sr’s Vietnam pictures on the wall, you’d piece together why an Irish guy from South Massana named one of his sons Vito.
If you listened to the third son Vernon talk for a few seconds, you might think he was the smartest son, and maybe, somehow, he was.
Vernon was the classic Catholic mistake baby, fourteen years younger than his nearest sibling and probably beyond Isme Murphy’s age to have a healthy kid.
Vernon was missing part of the puzzle, but was a highlight of visiting Superior Tire.
He randomly quoted a medical book he carried around with a tire catalog, and would fixate on two or three terms over the course of a day.
The most Vernon might do as far as the tire business went was carry some junk tires to the pile, or sweep up near the gumball machines that raised money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and Sherver High School Band and Cheer, but he would teach you a medical word, if ya wanted, and he would laugh at every damn joke you made. It wasn’t a trip to Superior without a visit with Vernon.
Kit Mulvally blew a tire, hopping a curb mad when the county denied his third and final hearing for a zoning variance to open a strip club on Lockton and Sterriman.
No nudity of any type in establishments serving alcohol. Decision final.
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