Abandoned roads - Jos Lammers

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even talk to me”, he says. “Not in English of course, but then I say ‘hey little fellow’, and then they chatter back in their own special way.” With a tender look he watches one of his little fellows cram a piece of baguette into its mouth, while another one is trying to trick him out of it and a third one keeps an eye on us. “They’re something special”, he decides. When later on we have repacked our suitcases and put them in the trunk of the Chevy, all of a sudden things go wrong. The car key is gone. It can’t be, but nevertheless, it is. I had it last, to open the trunk and now its no longer there. While the temperature is already well in the eighties again, we are searching in places where it never can be. Under the car, in the exhaust, near the spare wheel, in bed, behind the television. The thing is and stays gone. We have a spare key, but that is bound together on one ring that wouldn’t open with the one that’s lost. Key, key, key, no key. Without keys we can’t drive. Without keys we can’t switch on the AC. Without keys we can’t do anything. Without. I drop in a chair. “I’m so terribly sorry”, I say to Janny. She has in the meantime reopened her suitcase and is throwing her clothes on the bed because the thing has got to be somewhere. And than I see it. Right where the slide in suitcase handle is supposed to rest. Slipped in while lifting it, because now I remember that I’d put it right 88
there. I walk over to the suitcase and pick up the shiny bunch of keys. “I’ll be damned”, Janny says. We fall over backwards on the bed, right among the clothes. “What did you mean anyway” Janny asks. “By what” “That you’re sorry.” “I don’t know. Just. Everything. The stupidity.” “Well, stupid it was, yeah.” 89
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