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Bill pulls over to the side of the highway and puts the truck in park. He crawls out of the seat and into the back of the truck. He grabs Lenny by the front of his shirt and starts slapping his face repeatedly. Lenny gives Bill the Vulcan neck pinch and Bill goes down. Lida just watches.

"Stop it you two!!" She yells at them. Then crawls in the back to pull Lenny off Bill, who is now face down with the animals.

"Eww, not smelling too good back here is it Lenny?" She asks him.

"I guess we need to find another hose somewhere." She tells him.

"AWWW, Geeze Lenny, look at him, he's all covered with, well, you know." She says.

"Yea, I got it all over me too." Lenny says.

"Hey Lenny. I didn't know that the Vulcan neck pinch actually worked." Lida says as they pull Bill out of the van.

"It only works on Bill, for some reason. Sometimes he just won't shut up and I want some peace and quiet." Lenny explains.

Now Lida, Shatner and Nimoy and the 'Zoo on Wheels' are heading East on Route 26. Last leg right into Lafayette. Lida has relinquished the wheel to Bill, since his incessant yapping about her driving, this seemed to appease him and shut him up. Lida dials her cell phone.

"Hi". She says to me.

"Hi" I say.

"Hi" She says again until we both laugh.

"I'll be in Lafayette soon, where are you?" she asks me.

"I'm still heading north." I say. "I've had another delay."

"Is everything ok?" She asks. I tell her about the pickle suit. She's laughing and I can hear her explaining what's happened to Shatner and Nimoy. They start laughing too. I can't help it and I laugh at myself.

Lida tells me she is going to 'Comfort Suites Hotel' located directly off I-65 at Exit 172.

"I'll wait for you there. Bill and Lenny will be there too. I've talked them into waiting for you so you could meet them. They are going to borrow a plane from the airport and fly to New York. Neither one of them knows how to fly a plane but thy figured if they can fly a Starship, how hard can a simple little Lear be." She tells me.

"Are they sure that's a good idea?" I ask.

"I've tried telling them that but they're pretty stubborn." She responds. I can hear Lenny and Bill in the background arguing over something.

Lenny is trying to put the parrot on top of the guinea pig and make him walk around with it on his back. Bill thinks thats cruel and tells him to stop being so childish and leave the pig alone.

"Mind your own damn business." I can hear Lenny yell at Bill.

"Just drive the damn truck will you?"

"Watch the road!!!"

Lida tells me in a whisper. "These two are nuts, Sweetie. I can't hardly wait to get out of the truck, they're constant bickering is enough to make me sic." She says. "They never Stop!!!"

"Stop? Stop where?" I hear Bill ask.

"She wasn't talking to you Bill. Mind your own business." I hear Lenny say.

"Why don't you make me, you sorry excuse for a director." I hear Bill reply.

"That's it, it's go time you wind bag. I'm going to drop you like sack of wet mice." Lenny says.

"Take the wheel Lida. I'm going to kick me some Vulcan a**." Bill says

After a few miles the pack gives up. I breath easier and continue down the highway in the Weiner Mobile. I reach into the sack of food for an apple pie. While I'm eating it I decide I'd rather listen to something other that Box Car Willy. I reach underneath the seat and feel around.

"Aha." I exclaim as my fingers touch another cassette. I pull it out and take a look at it. 'Alvin and the Chipmunks', the Christmas album.

"Sweet." I pop it into the tape player. I'm making good time cruising down the interstate, munching on apple pies, and blasting Alvin, Simon, and Theodore at maximum volume. The tape starts to play side B when the gallons of cola I'd been drinking hit me.

I pull the Weiner off and into a gas station. I nearly have an accident while I search for the restroom key. I find it attached to a cinder block and run for it. Inside I fight with the zipper, trying to get out of the pickle suit. I free myself. After I relieve my bladder I wash my hands. That's when I notice my skin is green.

"What the H*ll?" I mutter. I look at myself. The dye from the pickle suit must have ran when I sweated and now my entire body where the pickle suit covered it is a nice shade of green.

"Aw crap. I look like a freakin' stalk of broccoli." I grumble. I try scrubbing myself with the hand soap in the dispenser. No luck. I try everything I can find in the gas station. Even gasoline but the dye appears permanent.

"Well this is just typical." I wash the gasoline off so a stray spark doesn't send me up like a roman candle and haul my green butt back to the Weiner Mobile. As I climb in I think now it wasn't such a good idea donning the pickle suit commando style since now it's dyed everything green. And I mean everything.

Bill comes out of the restaurant loaded down with bags of food. Still chewing on a handful of fries. Lida slides the door open for him and grabs the bags so he can climb in.

"Deluxe accommodations I see Lida." He says as he positions himself on the plastic milk crate. He takes a deep breath and smiles at Lida.

"Yes, deluxe" He repeats. Off now down the highway, just over the Indiana line Lida turns North onto Route 63.

"Ever been to Lafayette Bill?" She asks him.

"OH, many times, many times." He answers. Meanwhile Lenny is in the back feeding the animals fries and pies. They are all over him. He seems to be enjoying himself.

"You O.K. back there?" Lida asks.

"Fine, I'm just fine, I love animals." He answers

The female goat is laying on the floor on Bill's feet and the male has decided he doesn't trust Bill around her so he's just staring at him. Bill tries to feed him some leftover burger but the male just nips Bill's hand then 'bleats' right in his face.

"OOWW!!" Bill yells. "Lida, can't you go any faster?" He asks.

"I'm driving the speed limit Bill." She answers.

"WHAT?" He yells. "There's no one else on the road!!! And watch out for that cow!! Lida swerves and misses it.

"Please don't tell me how to drive Bill, I am a licensed driver and I have never had an accident. so please get off my back, will you?? This ain't no starship you know and your NOT the Captain now, so SHUT IT Bill!!" She says. Lida turns around to see Lenny feeding the parrot fries directly from his mouth to the parrot's beak.

Back in the McDonalds in Danville, Lida, Bill, and Lenny were finishing their lunch. Laughing about this whole thing.

"Well, Gentlemen, shall we get going?" Lida asked.

"By all means." Lenny answered. He got up and walked to the door and opened it.

"Ladies first." He said as he bowed from the waist.

"Oh, Bill ?" She called to him, still sitting there eating.

"Could you fill up some bags with whatever is cooked and bring it out with you? The animals will love it." She said.

"FFFSSSUURE" He answered, spraying the table with a mouthful of fries.

"Oh, wait a minute here." Lida said.

"Wait right here." She asked Lenny. Lida remembering there is no seats for passengers in the truck walks around the back of the building to find something for them to sit on.

"AHA!" There in the back was a stack of plastic milk crates. She grabs two and heads back to the truck. She opens the passenger side door and pushes back the goats and places one crate on the floor. Then she goes around to the back, opens a door and puts the other crate in the back.

"Here, Lenny you'll have to sit up back with the animals, is that O.K.?" Lenny smiles and says,

"Sure, I ridden in worse conditions." He climbs in and pulls the door shut. Then says,

"Feels like I'm going on an away mission in a shuttlepod." Then he laughs.

While Lida was having lunch with Shatner and Nimoy I was pulling into the parking lot of another McDonald's at the other end of Indiana. I had some trouble getting through the doors in the pickle suit but finally managed to squeeze myself inside. Going back behind the counter I located the fridge. After figuring out how to turn on the grill I fried a couple of burgers and some fries. Taking my food to a table I wedge my pickle suit into a booth.

"Crap." I said as I realized I had forgotten the ketchup. It took me a few minutes to work my way out of the booth.

"EEWWW, WOW!" I said. As I walked up to the counter. "All these apple pies and pumpkin pies just sitting here going to waste." I grabbed a bag and emptied the bin for later.

When suddenly at the door a dog was barking and scratching trying to get in. It was hungry. I wedged myself out from behind the table again and walked over and opened the door. I secured the door in the open position since it was hot in there and the electricity was off.

"Come on Boy" I said to him, and he attacked me!!! Tearing at my pickle suit, the barking and growling attracted a whole pack of dogs who flooded the restaurant. I grabbed my food and ran out the door, in a big hurry, jumped in the WienerMobile and took off out of the parking lot. Scraping the rear end of the wiener on the curb, I looked in my rear view mirror to see the pack running after me.

"I'm a gnawed pickleman with a scraped wiener." I muttered to myself.

As the three fussed around making lunch Lida decided to attempt to make the 'Special Sauce'. Bill tasted it and said.

"My Dear, I believe you got it!" They made up the Mega Macs and fries, got some drinks and sat down at one of the tables.

"So tell me, why are you here?" Lida asked them.

"We were at the convention in Chicago and all of a sudden we were standing in the room alone." Lenny told her.

"We stuck around for a while then decided to drive to Upstate New York. I have a place up there and we were going to see if anyone was still there. I have horses and I wanted to make sure they are alright." Bill told her.

''Do you know what's going on Lida?" Bill asked.

"Wait." she said. "Be right back"

Lida went out to the truck to get the lap-top. She came back in and put it on the table.

"See, it seems all of the members of our Web-site are still here" She told them. Just then, they looked at each other. "You're a member of STF.NET Bill?' Lenny asked him.

"UM, yea." Bill answered. "And you Lenny, are you?" Bill asked.

"Yep, I am." They looked at each other now suspiciously.

"O.K. Lenny, what's your user name then?" Bill asked him.

"I'm not tellin you, I don't have to you know!!" Lenny answered.

"Hey, Lida? Is VBG still here too?" Lenny asked her.

"Yea, as far as I know. We are all still here." Lida answered.

There was a few moments of silence as Lida logged onto the site. Suddenly Shatner blurted out.

"You're Cool_Hand_Lenny!" He yelled, pointing at Nimoy. "I don't know what you're talking about." Nimoy said. "Oh yes you do. You're always quoting my posts and giving me a hard time." Shatner says.

"And I know who you are too. You're "Bungalo Bill" aren't you?? Always spouting off how popular you are with the ladies." Lenny said. "And always chasing Jeanway around and fighting with Fenriz." Lenny added.

Suddenly it dawned on them.

Lida said. "That's YOU?"

"Uh Oh." They all said at the same time.

"Sure, you can ride with me." Lida answered.

"Great" Shatner answered. "But we're starved. We we just making burgers for ourselves. You hungry Lida?" He asked.

"Starved." She answered." I had a whole truckful of food but all the animals got into it and there is nothing left out there." She told him

"Well, come on back here with us, lets make some Big Macs. You know how to make them Lida?" He asked

"I think so." She answered. He lead her back to the grill area. Now Lida, Lenny and Bill were side by side making lunch.

"Where's the 'Special Sauce' Lenny asked .

"Huh?" Bill answered. "Oh yea, I forgot about that. Let me take a look around." He said. He walked over to the industrial size refrigerator and opened the door.

"Hmm, let's see." He said as he searched the huge jars.

"Is this it?" He said as he help up a large clear jar filled with something yellow.

"Let me see?" Lida said. "Open it for me will ya Bill?" she asked. "Sure thing, anything for a Lady, My Dear." He said leeringly.

"Keep it in your pants Bill. This isn't a sound stage." Lenny grumbled. Shatner was about to say something to Nimoy when Lida cut him off again.

"Nope, that's mayonnaise." She said as she gave it a sniff.

"Are you sure?" He asked. "Looks like Special Sauce' to me." He said.

"Look, there aren't any things in there. Special Sauce has stuff in it."

Bill took a bit on the tip of his finger and tasted it.

"Yep, it's mayonnaise. But I had my mouth all set for the special Sauce. Now what do we do?" He asked her. Nimoy squirted some ketchup on a bun.

"Mustard Bill?" He asked.

As she watched and listened she heard Shatner telling Nimoy how to make a Big Mac.

"NO, no, no, Lenny. You have to put a piece of bun in the middle between the two all beef patiies, it's not three patties on top of each other. What's wrong with you?"

"Bill, I want three patties in mine. I can eat whatever the h*ll I want, your not my Mama! Don't tell me what to eat!!!"

"AHHH, why do I even bother? Talking to you is like talking to a Klingon!!" Shatner yelled.

"You're talking to me because you're too cheap to rent a car on your own and Takai won't ride with you after the incident in Toledo." Nimoy answered. "By the way. Your fries are burning."

"Aw Crap!" Shatner ran over to the fryer and pulled out the fry basket.

Lida could hardly compose herself. To see two StarFleet officers arguing about making a hamburger. They heard her and Shatner said.

"Who's there?" Lida stood up.

"Well, well, well, and who do we have here?" Shatner said to her, eyeballing her up and down.

"It's a woman Bill." Nimoy said dryly.

"I can see that Lenny. I was trying to add some drama to the moment." Shatner replied.

"Give it a rest Bill." Nimoy said.

Shatner ignored his friend's "direction". As he walked towards Lida she didn't know what to say or do.

"Leave her alone Bill, she's just a kid." Nimoy said to him. Shatner looked over his shoulder at Nimoy who was now chewing a mouthful of burger. He was starting to say something when Lida spoke.

"Hi, I'm Lida. She said timidly. Ambassador Jeanway on the StarTrekFans.Net Website. Shatner stopped for a second. then asked her. "

Are you alone?"

"Nope" She answered.

"Well, who's with you?" He asked.

"I've got a truck full of animals outside. We are on our way to meet another member of the site in Lafayette." she told him.

"Hey, can we hitch a ride with you Lida? all we've had to talk to for the past 4 days is each other. What happened anyway? Everybody seems to have vansihed." Shatner said.

Now driving along Route 74 Going East, Lida decides she's better find a shoe store. She forgot to pack an extra pair of shoes. She sees a sign that says "Danville Mall" and gets off at the Exit. Since she is right on the Illinois/Indiana Border she decides it's time to give me a call. She dials my cell and I answer.

"Hello."

"Hi." Lida's voice says.

"How are you doing?" I ask her. She fills me in on her new passengers and the goat "incidents", we both laugh about that for several minutes.

"I'm stopping to do some shoe shopping." She says.

"I take it your last pair were goated?" I ask.

"Yep." I tell her about my directional misshap.

"I have to make up some ground but I am getting hungry. Hey, if I find a McDonald's I think I might stop and make myself a MegaMac." I tell her.

"EEWW, a MegaMac sounds good. I might do that myself. I see a McDonalds right across the street." She tells me.

"Hey if you see any shoes I might like grab me a pair. You know my size, ok?" I ask her.

"Sure." She answers. I see a sign that reads, "McDonald's 6 miles on the right. My stomach growls, apparently it can read too.

"I'm going to pull off a few miles up the road and eat." I say.

"I'm getting out of the van to eat now. I'll call you again later ok?" She says.

"Ok Sweetie." A few miles down the road I pull the Weiner Mobile into the parking lot of the McDonald's.

Lida drives into the McDonald's parking lot across the street. She sees the parking lot is full, but no one inside. She gets out and goes to the door. Looking back now she sees the two goats and the two iguanas faces pushed up against the windows watching her and two dogs sitting in the driver's seat.

"Cute" she says to herself. Once inside she looks around. apparently a lot of shoppers were here when whatever happened took them. There were department store bags all over the place. She rifled though a few of the ones closest to the door when she heard something.

From back in the kitchen area she heard two male voices. They seemed to be arguing about something. These two voices sounded VERY familiar to her. She ducked down behind the counter and creeped along the floor to get a look at who ever they were. When to her utter amazement she saw two costumed men. One tall and dark, the other shorter and more rotund. Instantly she recognized them.

Lida: It was Shatner and Nimoy!!!

"What the H*ll are they doing here??" she said to herself.

The ultimate creature of the night is a disgruntled possum. Have you ever encountered a pi**ed off possum after dark? YIKES!!!

Sometimes you can actually see the words as they come out of your mouth, this gives you just enough time to think,

"Aw Crap." Then your brain says to your mouth,

"You idiot! Why did you say that for?" And your mouth always acts ignorant.

"Say what? I was just expressing myself."

"That's it. I'm coming down there and kicking your a**!"

I always get really sleepy in the afternoons. Sometime after lunch and then again later towards sunset.

Remember when you were in kindergarten and got to take a nap on a little pallet after you had your milk? Why can't we still have that at work or something? Milk and a nap? Sounds good to me.

Not sure this is what you meant but THIS page has a tutorial. There probably many more too... Sorry if that don't help

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Thanks for the link AE.

I always thought it was kind of ironic that the Red Baron was shot down by ...

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This may be off topic but why do they call it the "Secret Service" ? I mean we all know about them so what's the big secret? Do they have a special handshake or something? Maybe a Treasury Department Decoder ring?

A little while later Lida notices a sign as she's driving, between refereeing the squabbles between the animals and keeping Mr. Amourous, the goat off her lap. "Kankakee", the sign says. She reaches for the map. "O.K., I'm on route 57, I'm ok." She says to herself. 57 South then to 74 East, ok.

When all of a sudden the female goat starts moving around and flapping her tail, right in Lida's direction then..............SPLOOOOCH!! All over Lida. :( It seems all this excitement has caused this little female to get, well, stimulated. :( Lida tries frantically to control the truck and gets off at the next Exit to try to find a gas station where she can wash herself off.

Now in the wash room she has to remove everybit of her clothing and wash herself off. She had grabbed the UPS uniform she had found in the empty truck and brought it in there with her to change into. Now all clean she comes out of the rest room dressed in a pair of UPS brown shorts and an UPS brown shirt, which was too big so she tied the front up in a knot at her waist. Forget the shoes, so now she is barefoot as well.

Meanwhile, back on the farm...........................................................

Lida is having a great time. She has hosed out all the poop from the back of the truck and is now going after the animals with the hose. "Come here, quit runnin" She yells as she chases them around laughing. The chickens are running in circles and clucking away. The goat was very co-operative and let her hose him down. The ferrats, guinea pigs and gerbils were now back in the truck. When she tried to get the goat back in he ran behind the barn and she chased him. "OH, I see." She said to him as she rounded the corner just in time to see him trying to mount another goat. "Lordy, lordy, I hope it's a girl." She said outloud. She pulled him off her and dragged him AND her back to the truck and lifted them both up into it. Then closed the door. She got Kes and BT out of the water trough and back in the truck too. The dogs jumped up into the truck by themselves. The kittens cowered under Lida's seat. The Parrots squawked loudly as she retrieved them from the porch railing and put them back in the truck as well. Now, the chickens. :( If you've ever tried to run down a chicken, you know it ain't easy. But she gave it a good try and managed to catch 6 of them then threw them in the back of the truck. Then she got back into the drivers seat out of breath. Now the lizards look at her from up on the dashboard. The two goats stare at her too. "What are you all lookin at?" She said to them. :(

Well, now neither of us know where we are. As I 'm driving, finally I see a sign up ahead. it says "Hitchcock, Next Exit". I look at my map and try to find Hitchcock. I don't see it anywhere along route 65 so I start looking at the routes around it on the map. "AHA! Here it is. UH OH. :blink: Looks like I'm on Route 60, NOT Route 65 and I'm 50 miles off course. CRAP!!! :( I watch for the next exit , get off and turn around in the opposite direction. Well, now that I've added 100 miles to the trip I have to find some way to take my mind off it. I look around on the floor and see a box of tapes. I pull over for a minute to see what's in there. UH OH, someone I never heard before. "Box Car Willie". "Who the heck is that?" I say to myself. Tape after tape is this Box Car Willie. The last tape in the box is "The Worst Music Ever". :( "Some choice" I say to myself. I pop one of the Box Car Guy's tapes into the tape player. As I cruise down highway 60, heading back to 65 I listen. "Hey, he's not bad." I say as he sings "Walkin a Hole in my Shoes", then "Bummin Around" then "Jesse James Robbed Trains". "Yea, this is good stuff." I said "I like this guy, he's got heart." I found myself playing this one song, over and over again "Mister, Can You Spare a Dime."

My cell phone rings. "Hi" I say, knowing it's Lida. "Where are you?" I ask her. "UM, not really sure, Aaron, been having a bit of trouble. I ditched the Lexus in a mall parking lot and boosted a larger vehicle. I've picked up a few travelling companions along the way." She tells me. "OH, and what kind of 'vehicle' are you driving now?" I ask her. "UM, it's, well, it's a truck." She answers. "And who are these travelling companions?" I ask her. "Just a few animals." She answers. That sounded alright with me. Gave her someone to talk to, I thought. A few nice little animals would be a good I idea, I thought. "Well" I told her. "I've got me a new vehicle too. My car died on me a few miles back and I found me the car of my dreams in a ditch." I told her. "Really?" She asked "What is it?" I didn't want to spoil the surprise so I said. " OH, Sweetie, it's a real 'Meat-Wagon'. When you see it you'll know it's me." :(

"How far are you from the Idiana border?" I asked her. "I have NO idea." I've sort of had my hands full and haven't paid attention to the signs. I will once I get back on the InterState, I'll call you again soon, alright?" She said. "Alright" I agreed. "Where are you?" She asked me. "OOPS" :( I don't know either." I said. "We aren't very good travellers are we?" I asked her. We both laughed.

Lida smells something coming from the back of the UPS truck she is driving. After the encounter with the goat on the road, the Iguana Love Fest and the ensuing commotion in the back she decides to pull over and feed the flock. She pulls onto a field on the side of the 'I' and opens the back door to the truck. A wave of animals come flowing out. Covered in all sorts 'animal waste'. "YUCK!" She says outloud to them. She climbs in after the truck is empty. Starts throwing bags of food out the back onto the grass and they all decend upon it. Over in the distance she sees a farmhouse. She decides to walk over and take a look. She enters the barn only to find nests of chicken eggs and a few dead chickens. The live ones were running around the yard. But she sees a hose attatched to the side of the barn. Not long enough to reach the truck so she goes back and drives the truck to it, all the animals follow her across the field. She goes in a looks for the feed barrels for the chickens and begins throwing cracked corn out all over the ground for them. Then she turns on the hose and begins hosing out the back of the truck.

Nearing the Indiana border on I 94 she is distracted for a moment by what sounded like some sort if riot in the back of the truck. Kes had gone back there and met a large male Iguana who seemed to have a "Fatal Attraction" for her. Two Iguana's mating can appear to an onlooker as a fight to the death, but this was normal as he chased her around in the back of the truck, tails whipping and running over all the other animals in his pursuit. When Lida realized that this was happening she turned her attention back onto the road then swurving and screeching on the brakes. She almost ran over a goat that was on the highway. It still stood there. She stopped the truck, got out and went back to see if it was alright. It had a collar and a lead on it. She led it back and lifted it up into the truck. It sat down right next to the driver's seat. As Lida began driving again it decided it was going to put it's front feet up on the dash and watch bleeting all this time. So now she had a navigator, a Billy goat. She dialed the cell phone. I answered only to hear a "Baahaaa" on the other end. :( :(

Now back outside Lida walks the parking lot looking for just the right vehicle for her needs. something not too big yet bigger than the Lexus Wagon. "AHA" :( There it is. PERFECT!" She says as she climbs inside, removing the brown pile of cloth from the seat and looking at it. She starts the truck and drives it to the entrance and backs it up behind the Lexus, then opens the back door and starts throwing all of it's contents out onto the parking lot to make room. Then goes back into the mall. Grabbing a couple of shopping carts she enters the pet store again. Carefully she begins loading small animals and bedding filling both carts she goes back out to the truck. This went on for quite a while. Until the back of the truck looked like a pet store on wheels. She unloaded the Lexus of all the food she had packed in there then brought Kes and Baby Tongue into the truck and placed them on the seat beside her. "OOPS" She said as she jumped out and retrieved the lap-top and the cell phone. She called me and told me she had to make a brief stop but was back on the road again now and should be nearing the Indiana border soon.

In the car as Lida drives south along the "Bottom of the Lake" the lizards wake up and crawl into the front seat with her. Kes decides she wants to look out the front window and jumps onto the dashboard. Baby Tongue sits on Lida's shoulder and helps her drive. Lida pops a CD into the player and the song "Green Things" is playing on the Kick-A** sound system. Baby Tongue opens her mouth towards the on rushing blast from the air conditioner. Lida places some fresh spinach on the dash for Kes and feeds Baby Tongue by hand.

As Lida notices the empty Mall just off the highway she decides to make a brief stop. She gets off at the next exit then comes back and gets off at the right one to get there. She cruises the parking lot looking for something. "AH, there it is." She says to the lizards. Pulls up to the entrance and parks in the shade. "I'll be right back" She tells the lizards and gets out of the car and goes in. She looks back at the car to see them both, their little faces pressed up against the windshield watching her. "So cute" She says to herself.

Inside she walks down the empty mall heading for "Hav A Hart". She enters the store and looks around. :( All the animals were either barking, meowing, crowing or screaching. Some lay in their cages weak from hunger and thirst. She sets about feeding every creature in the store. Opening cages and letting them free. She stands in the middle of the store and watches them all run around, happy to be free. Knowing in her heart she must take some of them with her, especially the babies. She leaves the store and goes back out to the parking lot to look for a larger vehicle.

Lida is now on I94 heading South. She grabs the map on the seat beside her for one last look and notices on the floor a satchel. She reaches over and pulls it up onto the seat and snaps it open. "EWWW, nice." She says. Inside there is a lap-top and a cell phone. She quickly dials my number. Back in the Wiener-Mobile I hear my cell phone ringing inside his duffel-Bag and reach for it. I answer "Hi". Lida asks me. "Where are you now?" I tell her I haven't seen a sign yet so I don't know exactly where I am but I'm on 65. "O.K. Well, I'm in Illinois right now, coming up on Chicago in a few minutes. Let's get off and I'll call you when I get to the Indiana border, OK?" Let's not wear the batteries down." I tell her, "Good idea." We hang up.