Stankin' Dark!

So dark, in fact, that my cousins are really really glad that I have a glow-in-the-dark Iron Man t-shirt....

..................and that I was wearing it.

We had pulled off the side of PR9, north of Red Deer in Alberta,(which is about halfway between Calgary and Edmonton), so that the boys could take a whizz.

Well, it's really really dark out there.

The guys had been carrying on about how the truck lights gave them no privacy as they trudged off into the bush to the west of the road.

So I switched off the lights, rolled down the window, then killed the engine too......all in the interest of energy conservation and being environmentally conscious and what not...

.....and then I sat there in the dark and waited.

It wasn't long before I heard some crashing around and some swearing.

And, "Dammit! Where's the frackin' road, man?" "I dunno, I think it's over here..."

*crash crash flail around crash*

Followed by, "SH*T! WHERE'S THE FRAKIN' ROAD, AND WHERE'S THE FRACKIN' TRUCK?!? AND WHERE THE FRACK ARE YOU?!?"

Then I hear some more crashing followed by a sort of mumbled, "Hell,Frank, I'm over here. Stop making so much noise, you KNOW A.J. will hear us and just think this is SOOO funny! "

Little did they know that I was holding my nose and nearly choking on it, trying to keep from laughing out loud.

So anyhoo, they stumbled around until one of them tripped over the edge of the road and fell onto the asphalt, the other,(I'm not sure who, as it was too dark to tell), sort of stumbled over him and wound up sort of sitting on his back.

At this point, a snorkle escaped from between my lips and nose, giving some sense of my position away.

Two heads whipped around and two sets of outraged eyes locked onto the glowing Iron Man Arc Reactor image printed on the chest of my black t-shirt..... and then they launched themselves at the hood of the truck.

Thank God I had the presence of mind to "high beam" them before they reached the truck, or I'm certain that they would have killed me and abandoned my battered corpse someplace between Leduc and Nisku................