“If she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will…”
So this happened at SNAP last night:
It was almost 2 o’clock for the second time that night.
(You remember, of course, that Daylight Savings Time kicked out around 2 in the morning. So we worked until 2 a.m., it went back to 1 a.m., and then we quit at the second 2 a.m. It’s complicated.)
Anyway, at this point, I was doing what I had been doing all night long: looking for good music on the radio. I occasionally let Dispatch know that we were still alive.
We were stuck at a red light on the edge of campus when I heard the heavy metal song I was playing for mood music get a lot louder.
I looked at my driver, and then at the radio, and then at the station wagon that had pulled up next to us. It was then that I realized they were listening to the same song.
As the song ended, the girl in the passenger’s seat leaned out the window and shouted over to us:
“Hey, are you guys having a good Halloween? What are you supposed to be?”
“We’re SNAP drivers!” we chorused.This joke worked wonders on her.
“I’m Cruella de Ville,” she said, showing off furs and matching gloves. “I’m going to steal your puppies!”
(I think she worked on that line a lot)
“You can’t have my puppies!” I retorted. “But you can have my ferrets.”
(I was lying. I didn’t have any ferrets. But if I did, they would be trained attack ferrets)
“Screw your ferrets!” she screamed, clearly vexed.
(I disliked having my imaginary ferrets insulted)
“They’re nice ferrets though,” I said.
(Nice enough until you get to biting distance)
She paused to consider this.
“All right,” she said, compromising. “I’ll take your ferrets AND your puppies!”
(It seemed like a fair deal to me)
Then she and Jasper sped off, and we were left laughing as we drove off into the morning.
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