New Entertainment Books had been released a few days earlier
and I had been making deliveries all day.
It was 5:10 PM, and I was on the 405 San Diego Freeway stuck in
a major traffic jam caused by a stalled car blocking the two right
lanes at Sherman Way.
As I was inching along in the backup, stop-go, stop-go, I noticed
that in the car on my left with a man and a women in it, they
seemed to be having an argument, as she was hitting the top of
the dashboard with her hand. Curious, I rolled down my driver's
side window.
She was yelling at her husband, saying, it's your entire fault, that
we don't have the new card, while he was replying, "for the fifth
time, I went to ____ house when you told me and she was
gone".
She yelled back, "Without the new card the hotel won't give us
50% off and our plane leaves in just over three hours". Again, she
slapped the dashboard. At that point they moved ahead of me in
their lane.
When I got a chance to move, I came up alongside their car,
honked and held up an Entertainment Book. Her eyes became
saucers.
Within seconds she opened her car door, walked to my car
without regard to traffic, handed me a $20.00 bill without a word,
walked back to their car, got in and slapped her husband on the
shoulder with the Entertainment Book. I could see him glaring at me
though the window.
They then moved ahead of me as we moved
two lanes over and took off.
