Yes Man by Wallace Danny

Author:Wallace, Danny [Wallace, Danny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2010-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12 In Which a Friendship Is Brought into Doubt, and Daniel Buys Some New Spectacles

I was driving at full-pelt back toward London.

I’d been to Stonehenge. I’d gotten out of the car. I’d had my picture taken. And now I was on my way to find Ian, confront him, show him the evidence, and tell him he was getting in the way.

His interference was actually quite annoying. He knew why I was doing this. He knew it was something for me. This wasn’t a stupid boy-project; this was important. Sure, it felt a little pointless from time to time, but that’s only because I hadn’t worked out what the point was yet. And how was I supposed to do that when Ian was prancing about in his flat with a mask on, pretending to be the Challenger and probably spending his time designing little Challenger logos and sewing a special lycra Challenger suit? I couldn’t fathom why he thought it would be in any way useful to try and trip me up like this.

I pulled up at a service station somewhere in Wiltshire and got my phone out. I texted Ian.

WHERE WILL YOU BE IN TWO HOURS?

I’d been sitting in my small green Yes-related car for several hours and needed to stretch my legs. I got as far as the mini-mart. By which I mean I walked across the forecourt; not that I have magic extendable legs.

Inside, the man behind the counter put down his paper and said hello. I said hello back.

“Is that your car?” he said despite the fact that I was the only person for miles around, and he’d just seen me get out of it.

“Yes,” I said.

“Odd, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” I said.

“Where did you get it, if you don’t mind me asking?”

“I bought it at a party,” I said a little grumpily.

“Oh. A car party?”

I have no idea what a car party is.

I found a pasty, shoved it in the petrol station’s microwave, set it for thirty seconds, and thought about what lay ahead of me. But my thoughts were instantly interrupted by the beep of my phone.

I’LL BE IN STARBUCKS, CARNABY STREET. WHY?

There was no time to reply. I was on a mission. I had to get going, move fast. I was out the door and in the car before the microwave even pinged.

“Excuse me,” said a man, suddenly to my right. “Would you have a moment to talk about Save the Whales?”

I was striding down Carnaby Street toward Starbucks, and I wasn’t in the mood for conversation.

“Yes, yes I would,” I said, stopping dead in my tracks. This joker was no match for me. “But can I go first?”

“Er … how do you mean …,” he said.

“Did you know that the UK is the world’s fourth richest country, and yet more than two million pensioners live below the poverty line?”

“Um …”

“Did you know that there are more than eleven million pensioners in this country?”

“Sorry, do …”

“Did you know that a third of pensioner households lived

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