#792 Human Snowball- Davy Rothbart
A late night Greyhound bus trip, a thief with a stolen car and a roll-full of scratch-off lottery tickets, a man about to turn 110 years old, a bar that “smelled like someone just puked on a campfire,” and a desperate play for love…yup this is a Valentine’s day story!!
The cast of characters that end up as passengers in the back seat of the stolen car as they kill time makes for a very fun Buffalo road-trip adventure story as well. There’s business deals, race conflicts, food runs, good times-bad-times, and runs-in with law enforcement. Great nights like this don’t happen all the time, but when they do, thye make the other days worth it.
Notable Passage: “A plume of merriment rose in my chest that was six parts the gentle glow of heading into any bar on a cold, snowy night, and four parts the wonderful, unpredictable madness of having a hundred-and-ten-year-old-man I’d just met on a Greyhound bus as my wingman.”
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