even in here , with a double-locked door between him and those billions of labeled cartons , he could recall wiping a booger on the end of bonnie deal 's braid in first grade ( and then asking that same bonnie to dance at the seventh-grade harvest hop six years later ) , watching carefully as lamar clarendon taught them to play the game ( known as cribbage to the low and the uninitiated ) , seeing rick mccarthy come out of the woods and thinking he was a deer .