I went out to the mailbox one morning to post a letter.
I noticed that the local sanitation truck lost several plastic bags from Wal-Mart.
About an hour later, this guy stops by the store.
His car was overheating…steam was coming out from under it
The hood.
The temperature was 110o in the shade and the humidity was
so heavy you had to have a machete just to walk
outside… well, maybe not that thick, but it was heavy.
We raised the hood of his Thunder Chicken. “Even the Fords
It’s hot in this kind of weather,” I said.
The engine had cooled down a bit, so I removed the radiator cap…
It was barely low on coolant.
I told him to start the engine and put some water in it,
then we would look for a leak.
While spraying water on the radiator to cool it down,
I noticed a blue plastic bag, in front of the air conditioning condenser.
I showed it to him.
“That’s probably why it got hot,” I told him as I pointed at him.
“I was following a garbage truck before,” he said, “but
I passed it because some garbage was falling.”
“Well, you helped him,” I said as I removed not one, but
three of the plastic shopping bags.
“How is that?” she asked.
You’ve been picking up what he was missing.
He thanked me and said, “If she starts to get hot again,
I’ll be back,” with a smile as he walked away.
I guess that cured him, because he never came back.