...

me

David

and Leo

are driving around our neighborhood in David's Electra 225

lot's of people are out, Treat and Oak Grove is packed with shoppers, loafers, folks waiting for the County Connection etc. it's dusk, everything looks Sepia. i'm in the front seat, with David driving and Leo in the back. i'm really drunk, David is nervously sober and Leo might be stoned or something. David is drinking a bottle of water and blathering about the new Zelda or graffiti or whatever. As David is making a left turn into Cork n'Bottle he drops his water, it rolls around for a second then lodges under the brake peddle. David starts to panic because he can't stop the car, we're making a left turn and he's trying to reach down and unlodge the bottle while controlling the wheel the whole time all "yo yo yo yoyoyyoyooyo yo yo..." and so i grab the wheel, and Leo takes off his walkman all "shit shit oh shit shit" and David dives down into the driver's leg area, ass in the air, and knocks the bottle clear of the brake peddle, we're still careening towards the liquor store at 15 miles an hour, David quickly rights himself and slams on the brakes. Now i'm laughing and David is all "yo, yo yo YO!?" and Leo is laughing and starts ad-libing a lewd R&B song that goes something like "she had big titties! and we slammed on the brakes!!! i said 'have my baby!!! before it's tooooo laaate'!!!!"...now David is laughing and is telling us to "shut it down." For some reason i'm craving vodka tonics. i tell David to drive around the corner to The Captain's Chest David sort of looks at me sideways and says "you wanna go to the Captain's Chest right now?" and i smile stupidly all "hell yessssss!"...and Leo is laughing and taps David on the shoulder and says "hell yesssssss!"...and David is all "simmer down..." and asks me if i've ever read Thus Spoke Zarathustra.