Walking Backwards, Me and Buddy Escape

[Brad Rose]

The TV crew arrived before the fire department.   They drove up in a little white van with a big satellite dish and a bunch of little antennae  stickin’ out of the front, that make the whole thing look like a giant metal whiskered cat with a hat on.  Then the ambulance, a  fire truck, and seven cop cars arrived.  The scene looked like it was a public workers convention.

 

A lady reporter from the TV crew came over to me an Buddy and  asked us our names, and what happened?  But before we could tell her what happened, a guy run up from behind her and said, “I saw the whole thing, and all I know is that if it wasn’t for these two guys here, that guy in the car would be charred darker than an extra-well-done T-bone steak.”

 

The guy was so excited that he started  telling all kinds of details to the blonde reporter (who, by the way, I think was making eye’s at ME) and me and Buddy kinda just listed for a while and then simultaneously started to slowly slink out of the scene—walking backward, so no one would notice-- and climbed into our truck.

[Teresa]

Walking backward, ha.  Can't blame them.  Cameras terrify me.  Believable.

[Mike Handley]

Public workers convention ... PERFECT

[Sandra Davies]

I can see it all ... wide screen technicolour (or whatever they do in cinemas these days)