Night Owl Cards

I had a lot of obsessions when I was a kid, as you probably know by now. Among them was root beer. What is it about kids and root beer? When you think about it, it's not something kids would usually like. It smells a little weird. It's made from a plant. If it's not made right, it can taste like carbonated prune juice. Yet most of the kids I knew were a little wacky about it. We'd go to the A&W drive-in, pull up to the speaker, order our burgers, fries and root beer, and just sit there in the car, happy as can be, chugging sweetened sassafras root. Today, if you're eating in the car, you're either in a hurry, just pulling out from McDonald's and unable to resist one chicken nugget, or you've lost everything and your car is your home. Different times, then. I liked root beer so much that I obsessed over its color. It was brown, like cola, but when you tilted it a little, or the sun hit it in just the right way, it had an orange glow. I loved...