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