10:8

It was $4.95 for the bottle of water. One stinking bottle of water that should have been free for the asking but this hole of gas station was asking for five fucking bucks.

This was a sign of the times. Everyone was getting greedy and the bastards in their ivory towers were putting the squeeze on. He’d run into a place last spring in Calgary that was trying to get away with charging $3 for a lousy cup of coffee. Just because it was ‘fresh-brewed’, whatever the fuck that meant. And now he was stuck shelling out cash for fucking water. Nothing from a tap because the bastard owners were too fucking lazy to clean the fucking bathrooms. Fucking pig sties. Actually I wouldn’t let a fucking pig in there, probably die of fucking gonorrhoea five seconds after it walked in the fucking door.

And one more smirk out of that ignoramus prick at the counter and I would have introduced him to my fucking tire iron. Fuck him and his “that’s the price on the bottle dude…”

Jesus, why the hell did I stop. 80 fucking degrees in a fucking desert and no one but morons and inbred asswipes around. I should just get the…

That fucking bitch. That stupid, conniving, ball shrinking whore. This is all her fucking fault. I don’t care what she thinks she has on me, I’m going to drive this fucking car right down her goddamn throat until she shits out what she fucking owes me… I’m going drive this piece of shit through her motherfucking living room and then burn down her pissant little fucking country hovel around her…

It’s my fucking property. She has no right to keep me from it and I’m gonna fucking just…

Fuck.

Fucking…

Fuck.

Barney slammed the empty bottle on to the oil-soaked concrete pad and watched it skitter under the car. He opened the car door and slid down into the Cougar’s sticky vinyl seat still wet from a day’s worth of sweat streaming down his back. A moment of staring blankly at the dust covered gauges and he twisted the ignition violently, slammed the Hurst shifter into gear and jammed the gas pedal down.

I gotta hit Estevan before the border closes. Fucking bitch.