“Do you miss any of that?” I wanted to know. In just a few seconds they had turned around and retreated as quickly diminishing taillights. She had run off with her boyfriend three months earlier but he dumped her in the middle of Texas with no money or way to get home. As he listened Birdie got out and stood with me, he glanced at my alluring sister appreciatively while I said “We were waiting for the state inspectors or somebody that might have a little gas, enough to get back to fill up.”
“Well, I don’t know when the inspectors will be here but I’ve got a spare can of gas in my cruiser. “Not there but I bet there are a couple of rock basins around, you know, big shallow holes in the rocks that catch water when it rains.
