"Can I another quarter?" he said. "What?" "Can I have quarter?" "Why?" she said. "Uh, I it," he said. "Sure," she said, and she him another quarter. And he out of the window there, and dropped it in the toll basket. Up the gate, and out comes...
Johnny's Camaro, Johnny's Johnny his Camaro, maybe more than life itself.
Oh, it was no big deal, he was just her to the airport. It was in New York City. It was springtime, however, in Africa. She'd saving up her money. She was going to go on one of these bound trips, so he was just giving her a to the airport. And around and around the they went, through parking garage, looking for a parking space. "There's one," she said. "No." "There's one," she said. "No." You see, actually it two parking spaces...
for Johnny's Camaro, Johnny's
He's a little walking through the airport. He's always looking over his shoulder. "You can go if you want," she said. "No, no man, stay." And he did. He stayed the plane took off. he ran back. But meanwhile, she was high up the city. She was down. She was looking at the lights of the buildings. She was looking down at the lights of the on the water. She was down at the lights. You see them crossing the bridges, and the little canyon streets. Little tiny, diamond toward you and away. You know, those little moving lights. And she knew that one of was... well you know.
Man, I've got to tell you about the she had in Africa. I I should start with the silver bracelet, I think where it all turns around. She been on the trip long and one of the guides sort of took her his wing. 'Cause she was sort of easy, she was a little nervous being out there. The first she got sunburned through her hat she she was a long way from home. She had left the group for a little while one day, she had went to take a pee, she said "I'll be right back," but she didn't come for a while. And guide, this African man went to look for her. "Laura! Laura?" He her standing on the lowest branch of a fairly tall tree, way off the ground. "How you get up there?" Well, she had jumped. "Why?" Well, there was a hyena, and had told her about hyenas. They have that can crush bone. She wasn't in a real confident anyway, and she just ran, and was the branch. She - one hand slipped, one hand held. She was not down. "He's gone." So now she trusted him, and she back down and both arms straight, hanging from branch, her are four feet off the ground. Man, she didn't she could jump that high. Ah, but she now.
It was changes like that that made him give her that bracelet. It was the one that he'd wear kind of between his elbow and his shoulder, kind of wrapped around his arm. It was a beautiful silver bracelet, and he it down a little bit to fit around her there and she smiled. So much so that it him. So much so that on the day of that trip, when they were getting back on the bus to go to the airport to go back to the big airport to go across the to go back to... you know, when they were back on the bus, she leaned out the window for that little cheesecake snapshot and as he through the camera, he had to slowly take the camera down, and turn his head to the side a bit, look a little bit sad and say "How you get up there?"
She was dreaming the ocean Dreaming of being again Dreaming over the Of what never be the same.
Well, he wasn't at the gate when she got the airport. He must have looking for a parking space. So she walked through the airport, you know, and it wasn't before. Now the airport seemed of small. The airport seemed of stuffy, the ceiling was a little bit low. And was getting out of her way. I don't know - well, I do know. it was because it had been winter, you see, and she had just back from summer. And she was just dressed normally. Everyone was bundled up, but she had on her hiking boots and her shorts and her top, her hair tied back, and a on her belt, and a big old silver bracelet, I think it was the bracelet, but was getting out of her way. She didn't see him 'til the backpack comes rolling the old claim, and suddenly there's this arm and voice saying, "I'll get that." And she says, "Hey, that's my backpack, gimme it. you parked?" So he gave her the backpack, and she swung it over her and they out and carefully nestled it in the trunk.
And then, out of the garage and into the city. And she had to out the window, she pushed the button and the window go down and she leaned out a little bit to the wind in her hair. Man, is the wild place to be. I mean, is the place, she has to lean a further out of the car just to just to see it all, just to look up at of the buildings. As a matter of fact, she a little farther back so she look back behind and those big tires rolling on that pavement, and suddenly the window came up and she comes back in, and sure enough got his finger on the power window. And he's at her like, "Will you get your off the upholstery!" The upholstery, the upholstery. She forgot. How could she Well, been in Africa. Come on! She took her off the upholstery. As a of fact, she took her feet off the upholstery politely. As a matter of fact, she her hands in her lap and she in for this ride. I saw just a glint of a smile as she her face to one side. Maybe to feel the plush upholstery against her cheek. Maybe to see the lights of the graphic on the stereo reflected in the window. to watch that lone drop of water make its weary way across that waxed surface. But I think it was just to enjoy ride... ride... this ride...
in Camaro, Johnny's Camaro.