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 "We shouldn't be doing this" was all I could think.  Pampa was a small town in the panhandle of Texas.  It was small with a population of twenty thousand or so and when you had lived there your whole life anything bigger was a city and anything less was unnoticeable.  We were the momma bear in Goldilock's story.  The best entertainment we had was walking around the neighborhood, or riding our bikes, or playing cops and robbers if we were old enough.  Some of the local teenagers would even drive their cars and park in the local grocery store's lot and just sit there.  That's all they would do.  My friends and I called it bumming.   It was a