Anna In The After Life #17: Fast Food Transportation

by
Charles McCarthy

The wiener mobile slipped across the majestic planes of what used to be called the "Great American Desert," casting its unique and ever fluctuating shadow over widely dispersed mail boxes, fence posts, and the occasional lucky "red state" hick. Bugs collected on the windshield like people trickling into a meeting that they didn't want to attend. The gas gauge slowly sank as the tank emptied to fuel the sound of the mobile's humming engine.

Anna lay on the floor looking at the ceiling and trying to remember more possibly important details of her last days. All she could think about though was Oscar's giant wiener, and the tiny spider that was crawling across the ceiling.

For the last couple of days he had been grilling her for information, and feeding her his wiener whenever she was able to remember another possibly important detail. The two wiener mobile workers had not been left out of the process. Andy, the wiener boy, and his wiener partner Tristan had received their fair share of "grilling" along the way.
In fact, after one night when Tristan found herself the object of everyone's affection, they had to take her to the hospital.

"Did I tell you that I was dressing up like a clown?"

Oscar looked down at her from his captains chair and replied, "Yes. It was the first thing you told me."

"Oh. Well, I think that's important," she giggled, sitting up.

"Oh you do, do you? Hmmmm, maybe it is," Oscar pondered, "Maybe it is."

As he said this, the Andy guided the wiener mobile into what was touted by the giant sign above it, the largest truck stop in the world. He slowly pulled the wiener up to a pump and hopped out to begin filling the tank. Sarah got out too and headed for the gift shop to buy a dream catcher.

"Dang, we ain't gettin nowhere."

"Tut, tut. You mustn't give up so easily. We are getting somewhere. We are getting to Florida. Once we are there, you will probably remember many more things, and we can possibly find more evidence." Oscar chastised lovingly, "Let's go have some fun."

With this, he hopped out of the wiener mobile, went around to the engine, and did something to it to make it not work. Anna followed. After Oscar was done with the engine, they headed for the trucker showers.