I myself am a knitter. And so this chapter is not to offend knitters. I'm just mocking our kind to be silly. ;)
A Year in the Life of Jess Mariano
Part August 8th: Sneak Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch night
Next door to the boys' shop and office was The Purl; a knitting and yarn shop. The women who owned it, two middle-aged divorcees, had always treated Truncheon Books as more of a passing fad than their new, permanent neighbors. While Matt had tried his darnedest to make a lasting, charming impression, the two women couldn't be bothered to even remember their names. Matt was Mark, Chris was Waldo, and Jess was Chip.
And so it was for these reasons that Matt had decided that The Purl would be their target for Sneak Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch night.
Chris and Jess sauntered along behind Matt, watching him walk purposefully down the sidewalk with a plastic bag full of zucchini.
"I just don't see the point," Jess shrugged. "It's zucchini."
"Rotten zucchini," Chris corrected. "Disgusting, mushy, green, rotten zucchini."
"Who thought this up, anyways?" Jess asked. "Whatever happened to the tradition of leaving a flaming bag of dog shit on your neighbor's porch?"
"No imagination," Matt replied from in front of them.
"That's not the point," Jess replied. "The point is-"
"Don't try," Chris cut in.
Jess and Chris watched as Matt walked softly up the front steps of the knitting shop and carefully set the zucchini down.
And then he ran.
His two roommates watched before sauntering back behind him.