he squints. snowman squints. carrie squints. even old fred squints, though, as a wrinkly hound, his expression is perpetually pinched into a squint.
carrie chirps up: “ reckon we got time t’ go’n help? “
he spares a glance at the dashboard. no, they don’t. not if they want to do this job in eighteen hours. bandit’s never one to back down from a challenge. that would be an insult to his ego. he sets his jaw to tell them they ought to keep going, when --
then, snowman, hollering: “ well, i’ll be darned! bo, pull over! pull over, it’s yazoo! hell, i ain’t leaving a pal high’n dry. “
sure enough, that vehicle is unmistakable. so is it’s driver, elbow-deep in the guts of the engine. carrie hops out with snowman when he’s barely got the damn thing in park, and he wonders when the two of them became such bosom buddies. shit.
sauntering up like the greatest asshole who ever lived this side of the mason-dixon he is, bo spits a wad of tobacco to the side and stops beside his passengers. (snowman, god love him, had to use everything within him not to bundle that crazy little woman into the tightest bear hug imaginable. carrie had her head tipped like a confused little dog, trying to size this woman up. colorful characters, indeed.)
finally, bo speaks, sardonic as always. “ how d’ya do, yazoo? “