The Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates #1106 is a pretty big one. Its low serial1 number implies great age. It was built long ago, when land was cheap and lots were big. The parking lot is half full. Usually, all you see at a Reverend Wayne's are old beaters with wacky Spanish expressions nail-polished on the rear bumpers2 -- the rides of CentroAmerican evangelicals who have come up north to get decent jobs and escape the relentlessly3 Catholic style of their homelands. This lot also has a lot of just plain old regular bimbo boxes with license4 plates from all the Burbclaves.
Traffic is moving a little better on this stretch of the boulevard, and so Y.T. comes into the lot at a pretty good clip, takes one or two orbits around the franchise5 to work off her speed. A smooth parking lot is hard to resist when you are going fast, and to look at it from a slightly less juvenile6 point of view, it's a good idea to scope things out, to be familiar with your environment. Y.T. learns that this parking lot is linked with that of a Chop Shop franchise next door ("We turn any vehicle into CASH in minutes!"), which in turn flows into the lot of a neighboring strip mall. A dedicated7 thrasher could probably navigate8 from L.A. to New York by coasting from one parking lot into the next.
This parking lot makes popping and skittering noises in some areas. Looking down, she sees that behind the franchise, near the dumpster, the asphalt is strewn with small glass vials, like the one that Squeaky was looking at last night. They are scattered9 about like cigarette butts10 behind a bar. When the footpads of her wheels pass over these vials, they tiddlywink out from underneath11 and skitter across the pavement.
People are lined up out the door, waiting to get in. Y.T. jumps the line and goes inside.
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n.青少年,少年读物;adj.青少年的,幼稚的 | |
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adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的 | |
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笑柄( butt的名词复数 ); (武器或工具的)粗大的一端; 屁股; 烟蒂 | |
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