Chapter 9 Phone booth

The first thing I did when I got off at Penn Station, I went into this phone booth. I felt like giving somebody a buzz. I couldn’t think of anyone to call up, my brother D.B. was in Hollywood. My kid sister Phoebe goes to bed around nine 0’clock- so I couldn’t call her up. Then I thought of giving Jane Gallagher’s mother a buzz, and find out when Jane’s vacation started, but I didn’t feel like it. Then I thought of calling this girl I used to go around with quite frequently, Sally Hayes, because I knew her Christmas vacation had already started- she’d written me this long, phoney letter inviting me over to help trim the Christmas tree Christmas eve and all- but I was afraid her mother’d answer the phone. I wasn’t to crazy about talking to Mrs Hayes on the phone. She once told Sally I was wild. Then I thought about calling this guy Carl Luce, but I didn’t like him much. After about twenty minutes or so, I came out the booth got my bags and walked over to the tunnel where the cabs are and got a cab.