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Standing in a circle of discarded half-smoked cigarettes, Frank Rice waits, squinting into the sun as the light begins to fade. Surveying a busy Centennial Avenue, he takes a final drag, tosses his cigarette to the ground and follows another college student-customer into Muncie Liquors.
“What’re you getting in to tonight?” Rice asks of the tall 20-something young man, one of Rice’s many regular customers, after he sets two cases of beer on the counter. “You still datin’ that same girl you came in here with? Marriage material?”
Personal questions are easy for the 30-year-old Rice, or as so many on campus know him, Liquor Store Frank, who started working at Muncie Liquors near campus four years ago. From the moment he walked in the doors, Rice decided he wanted to be the kind, knowledgeable and maybe a little weird friend for every college student that came into his shop.
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