Publisher's Synopsis
The door was all heavy wire mesh except for a round hole about an inch in diameter about four feet from the bottom, the soda pop hole. Sometimes guys waiting to be released after a night of drinking and an arrest would be desperate for a soda pop. Royal Crown Cola was a favorite because it was almost twice the seven ounce size of the other two colas, Dr Pepper and Coca Cola, and it had the most caffeine. Troy regularly walked by the jail on weekend mornings and, hailed by an inmate, given a dime pushed through the hole in the mesh door. Buying a nickle soda, he tilted the bottle to the hole in the door. It was just big enough to let the top of the bottle empty the soda through the door hole into the waiting prisoner's mouth until he signaled to wait. Several times there was more than one customer and he could make a dime, enough for a movie ticket.
