"Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction"
Summary: Harm demands an excuse for why Mattie is late returning from an outing.
Note: Sorry for the long delay! I had to pack and move, and then I had to unpack. Now I have to sit through new teacher orientation because I switched school systems... but an interesting experience with transportation home from our luncheon this afternoon made me wonder what the SUV stuck behind us was thinking...
Disclaimer: Harm, Mac, etc. are not mine, so don't sue me because I have an imagination and too much free time.
Written 27 July 2004
Harm sprang up the moment Mattie opened the door to her apartment. "Where on earth have you been?"
"Stuck in a hot car in a parking lot for an hour." Mattie threw her bag on the couch and sank down beside it. Harm followed, perching himself on the coffee table in front of her.
"What happened?"
"We got behind a bus in the parking lot when we were leaving the water park. Since everybody and their brother was out there today, not everyone was parked legally, and the bus got stuck making a turn."
"Couldn't you turn around?"
"There was another bus behind us, and when it tried backing up, it hit one of the illegally parked cars."
Harm shook his head, knowing the story was too bizarre to have been made up as an excuse. "You could have called to tell me you were going to be late."
"Cell phone battery died. Go figure."
Summary: Harm demands an excuse for why Mattie is late returning from an outing.
Note: Sorry for the long delay! I had to pack and move, and then I had to unpack. Now I have to sit through new teacher orientation because I switched school systems... but an interesting experience with transportation home from our luncheon this afternoon made me wonder what the SUV stuck behind us was thinking...
Disclaimer: Harm, Mac, etc. are not mine, so don't sue me because I have an imagination and too much free time.
Written 27 July 2004
Harm sprang up the moment Mattie opened the door to her apartment. "Where on earth have you been?"
"Stuck in a hot car in a parking lot for an hour." Mattie threw her bag on the couch and sank down beside it. Harm followed, perching himself on the coffee table in front of her.
"What happened?"
"We got behind a bus in the parking lot when we were leaving the water park. Since everybody and their brother was out there today, not everyone was parked legally, and the bus got stuck making a turn."
"Couldn't you turn around?"
"There was another bus behind us, and when it tried backing up, it hit one of the illegally parked cars."
Harm shook his head, knowing the story was too bizarre to have been made up as an excuse. "You could have called to tell me you were going to be late."
"Cell phone battery died. Go figure."