Mayonnaise of the Sahara - Part 10 (548 hits)
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Submitted by Ess2s2 (View user info) at 2004-03-03 00:06:42 EST
Bart, please give Uber a Mayo icon, please. I will start e-mailing you soon.
Previous installments:
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?message=1062635177905522136 Part 1
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?message=1062748979222113775 Part 2
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?message=1063093655797928792 Part 3
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?message=106325068434748972 Part 4
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?message=1066782865756926990 Part 5
http://www.ubersite.com/m/18270 Part 6
http://www.ubersite.com/m/21708 Part 7
http://www.ubersite.com/m/22302 Part 8
http://www.ubersite.com/m/25827 Part 9
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Daylight was quickly approaching. Otter regarded the brightening horizon and trotted back to the rest of the group, who were still looking on at the three of us standing out in the sand. I motioned for Tom to follow me with his camel and started after Otter. We had to make some sort of shelter, and we needed to do it soon.
As Tom and I caught up to the group, Otter was telling everyone to collect their things and to keep all their trash with them.
"Why the hell do we have to keep our trash?" Candace demanded. A juice can and peanut wrapper lay at her feet, glinting in the fading twilight.
"Because, if there are any hostiles out here, we don't need them knowing we passed by this way." Otter refuted.
"And you should really keep our desert clean." Tom interjected. Everyone turned their heads to look at Tom. Tom raised his hand and wiggled his fingers. "Hi."
"Just pick up your trash and get your shit together," Otter directed, Candace stooped and collected the garbage at her feet, everyone else followed suit. Once everyone was organized, Otter addressed us once more. "We need to construct some sort of shelter before the sun comes up, I figure on the other side of those large dunes we can at least dig a fox-hole." Everyone in the group grunted, including me, I looked down at Mayo and realized he had been trying to get a good look at Tom. I picked Mayo up and introduced them both to each other.
*
"Yes Mayo, being a travelling merchant, I do have a large tent, you wouldn't expect me to sleep on the ground now would you?" Tom chimed happily. Mayo and Tom had been holding a rather lively conversation while the rest of us worked at digging a fox-hole in the loose sand. This last sentiment from Tom caused us to sit up. John let a handfull of sand flow between his fingers.
"You have a tent and you didn't tell us?" John stammered. Tom looked away from Mayo and squinted one eye.
"You didn't ask." Tom replied. "It's the desert, I'm a merchant, have you ever been in the desert before? Well let me tell you something! IT GETS HOT!!!" Tom's cheeks were flushed and his eyes glinted, then all at once he sat back down next to Mayo. The group was utterly confused. Frank dropped his handfull of sand and brushed himself off.
"Can we share your tent with you?" Frank asked.
"Of course!" Tom said cheerfully.
*
As I slept in the midday heat, I dreamt.
The rainy streets of London, the windy streets of Chicago. I ran through sunny fields in Austrailia and trudged through the snowy mountans in Canada. The entire time, Mayo was nowhere to be seen. Faces appeared to me, faces I knew, but had never actually met. Naked women appeared before me, all vying for a chance with me. Women of all types. I chose the redhead, I have no idea why. The redhead and I went to Vegas where G.I. Joe held hands and sang "We are the world" with Cobra. Then they all pointed in one direction and there was Mayo, lid off, eaten, dead.
I was woken up by the sound of my own yelling, a frightening, barking yell that sounded like tree branches falling to the ground. I was dehydrated, and I had to piss badly. Otter, Candace and Frank sat around the center support of Tom's tent and looked at me.
"Where's Mayo?" I urged, I was aware of myself overreacting but was helpless to stop it.
"Mayo's just fine, he's resting in the corner with John and Tom, relax." Otter said, for a moment his voice soothed me like I could never have imagined. I propped myself on both elbows and looked towards the darkest corner of the tent, Mayo was resting comfortably in the ice bucket with a towel draped over him, Tom and John layed motionless, snoring. "Hey, try to get them up, we need to start packing up so we can get moving again."
I dragged myself across the confines of the tent and shook Tom, he growled and opened one eye in my direction.
"Get John and Mayo up, we're going to move out soon." I said.
"Right, move out, it's my tent and other people are telling me when to pack it in..." Tom rambled on as he woke the others, I smiled to myself for the first time since the plane crash as I packed my own belongings up. Outside, the setting sun filtered through the sand and cast an eerie red glow across the entire landscape.
User Reviews
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2004-03-03 14:40:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Hi, I'm waiting for the 59 bus. Are you waiting for the 59 bus too? We should start a club. And the club would have a secret password. And the password would be:
Mayonaise.
Submitted by ess2s2 (user info) at 2004-03-03 14:21:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Ya, I just wasn't feeling this installment like I was with all the others. My wife observed that I was also sober when I wrote this chapter, I need to get some margarita mix today after work.
I'm hoping to write the next installment this weekend, so hopefully Uber won't have to wait too long for the next part.
By the way, show your support for a UberMayo subject icon...Bart isn't listening to me.
Submitted by ugaly (user info) at 2004-03-03 10:39:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for continuing the series. I'll admit that this one was not as good as the others. You might want to start trying to figure in things to interest the reader instead of just good writing.
Submitted by DarthAwesome (user info) at 2004-03-03 07:31:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
good story
Submitted by Tom (user info) at 2004-03-03 03:29:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Hooray
Submitted by Flacco (user info) at 2004-03-03 00:50:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
it gets a 2 for continuing, i love this story.
but it didn't seem to have the depth the other parts had.
this mayo be a tad bland.
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2004-03-03 00:38:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This makes me want a tuna sandwich. Mmm... mayo...