"Can I have quarter?" he said. "What?" "Can I have quarter?" "Why?" she said. "Uh, I it," he said. "Sure," she said, and she him another quarter. And he out of the window there, and dropped it in the toll basket. Up the gate, and out comes...
Johnny's Camaro, Camaro Johnny his Camaro, maybe more than life itself.
Oh, it was no big deal, he was just her to the airport. It was in New York City. It was springtime, however, in Africa. She'd saving up her money. She was going to go on one of these outward trips, so he was giving her a ride to the airport. And around and around the airport went, through that garage, looking for a parking space. "There's one," she said. "No." "There's one," she said. "No." You see, actually it two parking spaces...
for Johnny's Camaro, Johnny's
He's a little nervous walking the airport. always looking back over his shoulder. "You can go if you want," she said. "No, no man, stay." And he did. He stayed until the took off. he ran back. But meanwhile, she was up over the city. She was down. She was looking at the lights of the buildings. She was looking at the lights of the boats on the water. She was looking at the lights. You see them crossing the bridges, and through the little streets. tiny, diamond toward you and ruby away. You know, those tiny moving lights. And she that one of them was... well you know.
Man, I've got to you about the adventures she had in Africa. I I should start with the silver bracelet, I think where it all turns around. She hadn't been on the long and one of the guides sort of her under his wing. 'Cause she was of startled easy, she was a nervous about being out there. The first time she got through her hat she realized she was a way from home. She had just the group for a little while one day, she had went to take a pee, she said "I'll be right back," but she didn't come for a while. And this guide, this man went to look 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, there was a hyena, and had told her about hyenas. They have that can crush bone. She wasn't in a real confident anyway, and she just ran, and was the branch. She jumped - one hand slipped, one held. She was not down. "He's gone." So now she him, and she swings back down and both arms straight, hanging from branch, her feet are feet off the ground. Man, she didn't know she could that high. Ah, but she now.
It was changes that that made him give her that silver bracelet. It was the one that he'd always wear kind of his elbow and his shoulder, kind of tight around his arm. It was a beautiful silver bracelet, and he bent it down a bit to fit around her there and she smiled. So much so that it him. So much so that on the last day of trip, when they were getting back on the bus to go to the airport to go back to the big airport to go the ocean to go back to... you know, when they were getting back on the bus, she leaned out the for that last little snapshot and as he looked through the camera, he had to take the camera down, and his head to the side a little bit, look a little bit sad and say "How you get up there?"
She was over the ocean Dreaming of being home over the ocean Of what would be the same.
Well, he at the gate when she got into the airport. He must have been for a parking space. So she just through the airport, you know, and it like before. Now the airport seemed of small. The airport seemed kind of stuffy, the ceiling was a bit low. And everyone was out of her way. I don't - well, actually I do know. Maybe it was it had been winter, you see, and she had just back from summer. And she was just dressed normally. Everyone was bundled up, but she had on her hiking boots and her and her tank top, her hair back, and a knife on her belt, and a big old silver bracelet, I think it was the bracelet, but everybody was out of her way. She didn't see him the backpack comes rolling down the old baggage claim, and there's this arm and this saying, "I'll get that." And she says, "Hey, my backpack, gimme it. Where're you parked?" So he gave her the backpack, and she swung it her shoulder and they went out and carefully it in the trunk.
And then, out of the garage and into the city. And she had to out the window, she pushed the and made the window go down and she out a little bit to feel the wind in her hair. Man, is the wild place to be. I mean, is the place, she has to a little further out of the car just to to see it all, just to look up at some of the buildings. As a matter of fact, she leaned a little back so she could look behind and watch big tires rolling on that pavement, and then suddenly the came up and she comes in, startled and sure enough got his finger on the power window. And looking at her like, "Will you get your off the upholstery!" The upholstery, the upholstery. She forgot. How could she Well, she'd in Africa. Come on! She took her off the upholstery. As a matter of fact, she took her feet off the 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 her face to one side. Maybe to feel the plush upholstery against her cheek. Maybe to see the lights of the graphic on the stereo in the side window. Maybe to that lone drop of water make its weary way across perfectly waxed surface. But I think it was just to this ride... ride... this ride...
in Camaro, Johnny's Camaro.