giggling schoolgirls

walking back to my car. open the bag of cranberries. toss a few in my mouth. start chewing. blah!! ewww!!! tastes like the rottenest sourest berries ever! blah!! just as i'm making the face to correspond with the taste, i notice a car of four young girls giggling at me. i quickly turn my frown upside down. put a goofy smile on. giggle back like the schoolgirl each one of them presumably is. they're parked in the car next to mine. look at me as i get in the deathcab. just sit in the driver's seat a while. not going anywhere. certainly not daring to eat anymore cranberries. just looking at my atlas and the mess of shit in the front passenger seat. someone knocks on my window. it's one of the girls in the car next to me. i roll down my window, "hello?" noticing she's either a little drunk or high, she says, "umm... we were just wondering if we could have some of your cherries?" "uhh... cherries? oh you mean these (refering to the bag of cranberries)? they're actually cranberries. they taste pretty bad. i don't know that you really want them. but you're welcome to have some." she takes the entire bag and goes back to her car. hmm... guess it's a good thing i got that $5. makes up for the $3 bag of berries just taken from me. i roll my window back up. moments later i hear a faint, "eewww!! gross!!" i look over and see them suffering with the cranberries. i giggle. mouth "i told you so" thru my window.

a few minutes pass. the girls are still parked in the car next to me. giggling. i'm still in the deathcab. cleaning. bagging trash. organizing. one of the girls yells over thru the car windows, "hey guy, what are you doing sitting in your car for so long?" i look over. they're still giggling. think they expect me to say and/or motion something dirty. i expect me to say and/or motion something dirty. instead, i hold up a trash bag and mouth thru my window once more, "cleaning." they nod. though they seem a little disappointed with my answer. i get out. motion them to roll down their window. kneel down so i am eye level with all of them. "hello? so, what are you guys doing sitting in your car for so long?" they answer with more giggles. no words. hmm...okay? let's try another approach. "how are all of you?" more giggles. no words. okay? well... "hey, well i just got into town tonite. just wondering if you all know any places i should check out that might be cool?" the girl in the driver seat says, "well, we're all underage..." oh really? couldn't figure that one out. "so we don't go out to bars or anything..." didn't know that was what i was asking? "but most everything is downtown." more giggles mixed with actual words this time, directing me to the downtown area. "alright, well have a goodnight." giggles goodbye. i get back in my car. look over at them one last time. stop giggling!! stop giggling!! start the engine. reverse out of the parking space. let them get a full glipse of me and the deathcab. then noisily put-put away to the far end of the parking lot; to sleep amongst the hopefully friendly RVs and mini-vans.