While on vacation, they sit enjoy-
ing a cup of coffee at a sidewalk
table in front of a bookstore/coffee
shop. A woman stands in the street
between them and the bookstore.
She is talking on her cell phone. A
man stands behind her. She asks
into the phone, “Where are you?
We’ve been waiting.” She hangs
up and the man behind her, her
husband, asks her, “Where are they?”
She says, “They are in the grocery
store parking lot. What are they
doing there? I told them to come
to the book store.” “No, you didn’t,”
he says, “You don’t know north
from south, east from west.” Then
to no one in particular and anyone
who happens to be within earshot,
he says, “Look out. My wife is
giving directions.” Then after
moving to the curb, he says to her,
“You better get out of the street be-
fore you get hit.” The car next to
where she is standing starts to back
out directly into the line of an on-
coming car. She yells, “Stop,” looks at
her husband and says “See, if I was not
out in the street there could have been
an accident.” He shrugs his shoulders.
Another woman passes by on her way
into the bookstore and asks into her
phone, “Where are you? I’m here at
the bookstore. Okay, see you soon.”
The friends finally show up and stop
to pet the Chocolate Lab who belongs
to the people sitting at the table. The
woman who had stood in the street,
says to her out of town guests, “All
right, we better go inside.” Her
husband sighs and walks behind the
guests.