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Beep! Zap! ZOOM! Beep! Zap! ZOOM! by Oliver Mattson (c) 2011 The Day was Saturday, the best day of the week, thought Ollie. Dad was listening to two radios, watching television, and talking on the CB radio and telephone, all at the same time.   It was a bit noisy. Ollie came in and said, a little bit loud, so that Dad could hear him, “Dad, Can We Go an Arcade?”, “Right ON!”, Dad responded.  He quickly wrapped up his phone call, and they both headed to the kitchen. Dad opened up the cabinet way up high, and pulled down the coin banks that thy had, especially for Arcade Visits.  He placed them down on the kitchen table, and opened them up. Ollie picked up his coins and Dad did as well.  They both grinned thinking about changing them into tokens, coins that allowed them to play games in special arcades, games usually ran on Quarters in most other  places. Dad gave Ollie extra money in the kitchen, because he was helping more and reading more as well.  While Da