” He turned and left and I continued to walk in. I have had some beer before, never a whole one, but enough to get a bit of a buzz to know what a b...zz was like. So I started on this beer. I walked around a while, bored as hell because everyone was talking but not to me. My beer buddy was headed toward me beer in hand. He started to take my beer but stopped and said, “you need to finish that so you can have this one.” I guzzed the last half of the beer and he replaced it with the one. As we neared the end of our shop, Donna went to the toilet and this girl was waiting at the freezer while her friend was looking in. I approached her and said "Do you know me as you've been staring at me", she looked embarrassed as she replied "No but I fancy you like mad", this took me back. I said "I'll give you my number" and with that I did.Two days later on the friday I received a text from a number I didn't recognise, when I text back it was this girl, she said "I have to see you" I. I found myself confused and a little angry with James, but I went over to take their order. James brought what I assumed was his partner, another very dashing man in his 40's, with a burly build, tall, and masculine. I walked up and casually asked for their orders. I looked at James very intensely, but he only ignored me. I dropped off the drinks while they talked, not even looking at me. In defiant despair, I went over to talk with the chubby black man. He must have been close to 300. “Turn around and turn right on that road we just passed!” I shouted.Mary executed a perfect skidding 180, damn near flipping the van over, and began hauling ass back the way we came. She turned onto a narrow side road and my vision became clear. There were signs of construction ahead and I saw where a large new culvert had been recently installed.“Stop! We gotta get in that culvert! Hurry, we don’t have much time!”It sounded like a freight train as we scrambled into the 36-inch culvert. In less.