“Oh! I come back to get married. I was going to go back but my wife she don’t like to travel. Where you from?”
“Kansas City.”
“I been there,” he said. “I been in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City.”
He named them carefully.
“How long were you over?”
“Fifteen years. Then I come back and got married.”
“Have a drink?”
“All right,” he said. “You can’t get this in America, eh?”
“There’s plenty if you can pay for it.”
“What you come over here for?”