Never fails never fails

You’re muttering.

Give me five an Ill be hollering at ya to hear me

                                                 he glanced over Maxs shoulder

Maxs turned right following his look

                                      Awshit.

Ya said it

a city Maintenance truck had parked and an employee was strapping a leaf blower onto his back they sat across from the huge grassy mall sparkling water fountain across from City Hall

Donya think the city would get their labour get a bigger bang for their buck if this cat had a rake but before Max could answer Maintenance fired up the industrial leaf blower

                                                           Wha a fuckin howl

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

I said wha a howl

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

I SAID HOWL

OHYES, HOWL.

FUCK

YES, FUCK.

WANNA GO INSIDE

MAYBE HE’LL GO UP THE STREET.

BRILLIANT 

           he got up off his ass crossed the street approached Maintenance HEY he started turnedabruptly and retreated as he was reaching to tap him on the shoulder furthur emphasis if he hadnt heard him  Maintenance backed off on the Newtons of force quieting the machine

                                                           Thank you

slipping off his industrial headphones music leaked everywhere What?

I said thank you  Would you mind   Please

Mind?

Pretty obvious Still holding a cup of coffee from the shop across the street where I was having conversation with a friend

You have a rake in your truck

A rake? he asked facetiously

he thought about letting him stew but Norville the stitched name patch on his jacketpossibly on the shirt beneath too  in case he forgot didnt strike him as a deep puddle

                                          Yes A rake Were talking across the street and preferya can imagine not wanting to scream at each other

I have work to do.

Can ya do it on the other end of the mall where the trees and the leaves are I watched you kick up a couplethree leaves at a time here an those leaves  where might you suppose those leaves came from

                                                                                        he looked towards City Hall

Norville followed his gaze Id might imagine these leaves are from those trees at the other end of the mall

Norville looked back at him the machine still gargling

I could do that.

   Please

           I expect well be done with our coffee in a halfhourforty minutes

Half hour.

Forty minutes

Half hour?

Forty minutes

                Look for us or ifya rather I can interrupt you again

Forty minutes.

Thank you he looked at his name patch Norville  he withheld being facetious

We were saying

What did you say to him?

Asked Norville to please tend where the trees and leaves are

You’re kidding me?

                    Norville?

Had you been up-close-an-personal an seen through the googles the headphones off  you may have guessed Norville

Had I a guess before I saw his name patch I would have guessed Huey  Huey Huey Here pig pig pig

What?

Sooie

Sooie?

Pig pig pig  Youve not heard that

No.

Yare definitely from LA

I am, still don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

Anthas okay awright

Mebbe ya saw as I was walkin towards him he blew one leaf forward an it curled back around behind him  One single leaf

I missed that.

Incredible Then he hit a patch threefour leaves blew up into the air which also circled back around him I think through his gogglesdespite being walleyed  their frame obscured his vision

                                                                      He truly needs a rake Rakes don allow escapees

Escapees?

Nah don play dumb

                     When you approach a herd of leaves ya nonchalantly hide the rake behind your back then when you jump them they get confusedlook for a lead leaf to head the breakout but baffledsurprised their randomnessnot wanting to breakup the band they fall into heap inert  listless

                                                                   Before they know wha hit em youve raked them into a pile to deliver to the street gutter curbside to burn them in their stupor 

Are you high?

Hellno  Im Norvillising

                         Im making sensemade him abide me so we could talk Ya got a problem with that OR WOULD YOU RATHER SCREAM

he startled Max he went over backwards dumping his cooled coffee all over him 

Gawddamn it we still had another twelvefifteen minutes

                                                               Are you okay

You frightened me, I hadn’t expected you to scream in my face.

I wont apologising Should try to expect the unexpected

                                                           Adapt react head on a swivel both feet on the ground

Jesus, I’m having coffee.

When you least expect it yare elected yare the star to day  he didnt sing

I’m the star today?

Ya is

      Smile yare on Candid Camera

1415,  Thursday,  13  1. 22

1747,  Saturday,  15  1. 22

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