We heard Ted say that he would listen on twenty meters for the guy from Wisconsin.Shirley moved to the HF radio and called, “ WB9KLR, WB9KLR, this i... K4SAA. Jimmy, this is Shirley. Over.”K4SAA, this is WB9KLR. Shirley, it’s good to talk to you. Janice told me a little about your community there in Georgia. My parents are here along with my younger brother and sister. We are very interested because it’s going to get very cold up here. Go ahead.”“Jimmy, this is Shirley. Please introduce me to. "Maybe I'll headdown to the main drag and find someplace," I suggested."You can eat fast food for once in your life," Boop chided me. "There'sa place up ahead that looks okay."Rusty's Burger Barn, the sign said. Another sign advertised "Rusty'sBest Burgers" under a neon bull. The place was twenty years out of dateand wouldn't have attracted flies next to a new McDonald's, but itlooked clean and the cooking odors I was starting to pick up through theair conditioner smelled as if the grease. “You’ll have to come back later.”“You don’t even know what I need to ask.”“Doesn’t matter,” she said and looked at the clock. “It’s almost lunchtime. I’m not gonna miss my show.”“Ma’am, please...”“I’m not your ‘Ma’am’,” she barked suddenly. Then she settled back into her chair and said, “Name’s Selma.”I nodded. “Selma. Please. I only need to know if a particular person has stayed here recently.”“How recent? My memory’s not what it used to be.”“A few months ago?”She frowned at me. “What’s her. After an hour of driving with the comforting drone of the worn exhaust cutting through the darkening sky, I carefully pulled into a shopping center parking lot. The lot was a few hundred yards from the abandoned dealership.While I obviously didn’t think this exercise bike, if it existed at all, would have mind control abilities, I still wanted to take extreme precautions before looking for it. I didn’t necessarily trust a random guy on the internet. Especially the part of the internet I was.