Saturday, April 20, 2002

Heist

Brooke has me on a hunt for buried treasure or loot from a robbery. But the field where she buried it years earlier had since been developed. So Brooke shows up with 2 bulldozers and explains that a smash and grab is the best way to do the job. There are fierce guard dogs held back by chains. A small group of guys are helping us, like we’re a gang. The problem is that she doesn’t know exactly where the stuff is buried since everything looks different covered in concrete. It looks like a used car or parking lot. We’ll just have to dig up the whole thing, push cars out of the way with the scoop of the bulldozers. Then I’m following a small dog down a hallway and into an apartment. Inside are two guys playing video games. I don’t know them but start talking like me walking into this apartment is normal. I start pulling down the blinds because out the window is the lot the bulldozers are tearing up. But the guys look out and see. But instead of raising any kind of alarm, they talk about how cool it is, like a live video game. The guys sound like complete geeks as the go on and on. I look back out the window and there are now bunches of balloons everywhere, tied to lampposts and the fence around the lot. There are people from the neighborhood everywhere, watching the lot get torn up. It has become a festival.

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