Living Groups
Chapter Fifty Nine.






"Sand cattle."

Beach Trip Day Three

aka "Alyssym's Adventures"



Alyssym was awakened that morning to the sound of Grandma urinating. Openning her eyes, she was greated by the accompanying sight. Grandma never bothers to close the bathroom door.
Alyssym and the rest of the crew spent the afternoon making 'sand cattle': two cows made out of sand, surrounded by a wall so that the water wouldn't be able to get to them. The plan was to create a feat of sand-engineering which would confront and overcome the elements. Unfortunately, they built their sand cattle just slightly too far up the shore, and never got to see the water approach the walled sculpure.
Returning to Grandma's house, Alyssym suddenly decelerated.
"Oh great, I'm going to get a ticket.", she said.
"Whut?!", said TM.
"There's a cop behind me", she replied, "and I was speeding."
"Well, he hasn't flashed his lights at you or anything..."
"If he doesn't pull me, I'll lost all faith in the police."
Sure enough, as they reached the far side of the bridge the cop turned on his lights and siren. Alyssym pulled over in front of an intersection and waited for the cop, Officer Ussery, who promptly approached.
"I'm *really* sorry Officer", she said. He took her license and the car's registration and went back to his squad car.
"This is juuust great.", said Alyssym.
"I followed you going 19 miles an hour over the speed limit", said the cop upon his return, "but I don't right chase tickets, so I'm just going to let you off with a warning." They all thanked the Officer and sped away, relieved.
TM had left his shampoo at Grandma's house, so they stopped by to pick it up. With their mission accomplished, Alyssym tried to start the car only to find that it was silently inactive. After much freaking out, TM hopped into the driver's side to look for the hood-release lever and noticed that the car was in 'drive'. He put it in park and turned the key, it started right up.
Driving back to the condo, they approached a flashing red light. Not a light that blinked on 'red' and then off (black) but rather a normal light that had a flashing white pulse.
"I hate this kind of light", said TM, "they're so annoying and they can cause people with epilepsy to go into convulsions."
"Yah, red lights like this one are annoying", said Alyssym as she sped through it.
"Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit", came Big Dogg's voice from the driver's-side back seat. A car was looming towards him, honking and swerving to avoid them. Seconds later it was over, they had survived without a scratch.
"I can't believe you did that!!!", exclaimed all to Alyssym.
"Me neither!", she protested, "I mean, I saw the light and even commented on it!"
That night, as they drove back from the bowling alley, they had a unique fright. A woman pulled up next to them on the highway and, rolling down her window, called for them to pull over. Alyssym turned into a gas station and rolled down her own window as the woman pulled up next to them.
"Roll up your window and drive away *now*", said Spider-Man, expecting that the woman would at any minute pull out a rifle and execute them all.
"You hit a guy on a moped back there", the woman said, "back in front of the bowling alley."
Alyssym was really freaked out at this information, and, thanking the woman, headed back to the bowling alley to look for a downed moped and rider.
"There's no way you hit a moped", said TM, "we would have seen or heard or at least felt *something*."
"Yah", said Vic the Stick, "she probably hit the guy herself and is trying to make you take the rap."
They returned to the site of the alleged accident but could find nothing to substantiate the woman's claims.



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Originally Written 3/24/97
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