One Four-Hundred-Dollar Hotel Charge Sent Me Home Three Weeks Ahead of Schedule
The most recent toll charge was three weeks old, from a Saturday trip to Cody’s pediatric dentist.
There were no tolls logged on Tuesday evening.
She hadn’t driven our car to the Prime Grill.
Somebody else had driven her.
I shut the browser and powered down the laptop.
At fourteen hundred hours I walked over to the motor pool.
The desert sun scorched the corrugated metal roofs of the maintenance bays.
I stood next to a transport truck holding a shop rag.