Vacancy

- Son of a bitch.

- What are you doing?

There's a goddamn raccoon

in the middle of the road.

Jesus.

Well, better to kill us than get

a little roadkill on the car, huh?

Well, we're still alive.

I can tell by the pissy look

that you're giving me.

- This isn't the interstate.

- There was a wreck.

It was all backed up.

I took a shortcut.

To where?

- Can you hear that?

- Hear what?

I think the engine just made a noise.

Well, it's kind of late

for a breakdown.

Should've stopped somewhere

earlier.

I popped some of those trucker pills.

I thought I could make it

the whole way.

Where are we?

You were really dreaming

over there earlier.

You were mumbling

and jerking around.

I dreamt you were trying to kill me.

We were at my parents'

anniversary party...

...and my mother

wouldn't stop talking.

You started screaming you couldn't take it

anymore and then you tried to strangle me.

At least you were

dreaming about me, right?

That's kind of an improvement.

- Shit.

- Jesus.

You okay?

I keep telling you

how stupid that is to do that.

You ought to just kind of bite into

the apple like the rest of the world.

- It hurts my teeth.

- As bad as cutting your finger off?

It's not anything.

- You want me to drive for a while?

- No. I don't.

Why don't you just go ahead

and go back to sleep?

Remember how Charlie used to dance around

even when there was no music playing?

I'm tired, David.

See, I think that should be us

just about there.

Why didn't you just

stay on the interstate?

I don't know.

Guess I just wanted to make this

as miserable as possible, you know?

See just how big a bitch

you'd be about it.

I just thought it would be faster,

you know?

Shit.

Is that something?

Do you think they're closed?

Since 1957.

That's too bad,

because they got good gas prices.

- Look, if you're too tired, I'll drive.

- I told you, I'm fine.

Okay. See, that town there, Elida.

You were asleep, but we went

through there about three hours ago.

Well, that should put us

down here somewhere.

I mean, that's a town. Downey. I mean,

they would have a real gas station.

If that's really where we are.

I think that we're headed south.

I mean, eventually, we've got to hit a...

- Oh, my God.

- Sorry.

- Oh, my God.

- Sorry.

- It's okay.

- You got to me before I headed out.

- I'm sorry.

- I gotta warn you, though.

Th... The gas price is a little steeper

than the sign says.

Actually, we're just...

We're having some engine problems.

Yeah, he dodged a squirrel

a few miles back.

- It's a raccoon, yeah.

- And we're lost.

Well, she's lost.

I actually know exactly where we are.

We're on our way to Downey.

He's trying to tell you

it's the other way, David.

- Yeah. Sorry, man.

- It's okay.

It's really easy to get turned around

out here without a map.

- Downey's, like, 30 miles back, man.

- Really?

Look, I'll tell you what. Pop the hood.

I'll check the engine

and make sure you can get that far.

- Really? Thanks. Okay, great.

- Great. Thank you so much.

Yeah, I went off the road there

when I missed the raccoon.

I think I hit a low spot.

Yeah. Thanks, man.

Is he gonna fix it?

- What do you think?

- Well, the fan blade's bent.

Rock must have hit it.

Yeah, she'll drive fine, just noisy,

that's all.

You wanna have someone take a look

when you get where you're going.

I'll do that. Thanks.

So now, what do I owe you?

Oh, no, nothing. No, we're good.

Hell, I should pay you for finally

giving me something to do.

Do you need help getting to Downey?

- Yes.

- Well, actually...

...if you could just point us towards

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