When Buzzards Are Circling Your RV
BY FRANK TALABER (
frank@gerrysauto.com)
It’s 54 degrees in the shade on Arizona’s Interstate 40. You’re hoping to see the Grand Canyon before sundown (a note to those of us laughing in the background that have been on that tarmac: there is no shade). A nervous eye keeps glancing at the temperature needle on the dash as it begins to
fl icker, edging ever closer to that dreaded capital H, which you know that if the needle reaches it doesn’t mean you’re actually in hell, but you could see it from here. Your A/C is struggling to keep three out of four fi ngers
clutching the steering wheel cool. T e rest of you, and a very miserable wife, are perspiring most unromantically. Buzzards have begun circling overhead smacking their lips at another overheated RV dinner (Okay. Point of fact here for
those pedantic ones, buzzards don’t actually have lips but beaks, and they can’t smack them either.) So, buzzards clacking their beaks circle, as ten-year-old radiator hoses begin to expand and contract like bellows of an accordion at 2 a.m. of an all- nighter German Oktoberfest. A shudder rings through your engine as the thermostat
clanks shut, the pistons in your engine begin to glow like your wife did aſt er last year’s holiday in Acapulco. You still haven’t let her forget her famous words “I don’t think that SPF stuff really works, do you?” For the next week she became addicted to having her body smeared all over with Aloe Vera lotion, which could have led in other circumstances to nights of pleasure, except you didn’t have any hearing aids to stop her screams every time you touched those areas of cherry redness covering 98 percent of her body. T e water pump turns to plasticene, the radiator implodes
and your rubber hoses expand miraculously to eight times their size (a note to scientifi c persons here, rubber only expands about double in size, no matter what Goodyear or Trojan claims) releasing that dreaded mushroom cloud of steam that means the next several hours are going to be of you hiking across the desert, while tumbleweeds rattle by and coyotes howl to the moon, knowing getting lucky with the missus means being allowed to sleep indoors in the car seat and not under the RV for the next week with scorpions and rattlesnakes using you as a blanket and that’s if you do fi nd any water.
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