Greasy Rider by Greg Melville

Author:Greg Melville
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2007-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Busted

Somewhere around the town of Kearney my cell phone chirped. The display read, “Home.”

I flipped the phone open, and it occurred to me that Ann Marie’s voice would take mere milliseconds to travel the distance Iggy and I needed four days to drive. “I see you went shopping at Wal-Mart,” she said, and paused, letting my mind fill the silence with the lectures on corporate greed I’ve heard before. Waterloo, New York! I could’ve sworn I used cash there. She had been checking our bank account online and noticed the purchases on my ATM card.

“It was Iggy,” I told her. “He wanted to get some stuff there, and I said I’d pay.”

“He’s right. It was me!” Iggy yelled toward the phone.

She ignored us. Her point made, she moved on. “How are things going today?”

“A little better,” I said. “We’re making progress. I’ve changed the route a little. We’re cutting out the sightseeing and heading as straight west as possible. We’re on Route Eighty in Nebraska right now.”

She asked how we were going to see the “real America” from the highway.

“This is the real America,” I said. “The real America looks all the same. That’s the beauty of it now.”

She made some remark about how she would have planned the trip, and I got angry. “I don’t see you sitting in a car that smells like a trash can for twelve hours a day and begging for oil! It’s easy for you to say what to do!” She didn’t respond.

“So how are the kids?” I asked, lamely.

“I gotta go,” she said. Click. I looked at the phone’s display: “Call ended.”

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