You can skim through your copy of Road House after writing about Road House for over two hundred and eighty days straight and still catch the occasional detail you’ve never noticed before. Case in point: Red Webster’s mailbox. Just in case you were looking for one of the other R. WEBSTERs in Jasper, I suppose, Red has tricked his mailbox out with hubcaps. Not content with owning and operating an auto parts store, Red brought his work home with him, then made it a part of his home. It makes you wonder if the other luminaries of Jasper society have done the same. Is Frank Tilghman’s mailbox festooned with broken tables? Does Pete Strodenmire’s say “WELCOME TO WAGON DAYS”? Does Dr. Elizabeth Clay’s come in the shape of a colonoscopy x-ray? We may never know; in fact I’ll go so far as to say we will never know; but the beauty of Road House is such that the doors to these possibilities are opened and never shut.
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