Dinner With Longshot and Mustang
   by Vargon and Jaz

The Backstory: We were to have dinner with Longshot and Mustang in New York City at a place called Jekyll & Hyde. As luck would have it, it was raining -- no, pouring. The rain was coming down hard and fast. We arrived at Port Authority and immediately began walking to our predetermined meeting location of 41st and 8av. On the way there, we ran into Mustang. One down, one to go. The three of us waited under an awning of the Port Authority bus terminal for Longshot. 10 minutes went by and Longshot called from his cell phone. He was running through the rain and was very wet and uncomfortable, but would be there in 10 to 15 minutes or less. He was jogging in the rain all the way from Rockefeller Center. So, 30 minutes or so later... Longshot jogs up and accidentally "bumps" into Mustang. No sooner do we all say our hellos than someone proceeds to run out of Port Authority and to the trash can that's right in front of us. Then, he begins puking. Not just a little bit... but gallons of milky vomit. We had to wonder why he ran to the trash can if all he was going to do was puke on the ground next to it rather than in it. Anyway, we took that as our cue to make a hasty exit.

Since it was raining so hard and Longshot was thoroughly soaked, we decided to skip Jekyll & Hyde and instead went to the nearest restaurant: Chevy's Tex-Mex. Yes, we went all the way to New York City, from Arizona, to have Tex-Mex food.

The pictures tell the rest of the story. The highlight of the evening was when the waiter was brining us refills. The waiter dumped Coke all over Longshot. The most unfortunate part was that Longshot had finally dried off after jogging through all that rain. We had a good laugh over that -- but it got better. The waiter cleaned up the mess after some time, and then they put a big yellow "Wet Floor" sign on the ground right next to Longshot. You may have had to be there, but it was hilarious!

 

Longshot's true colors shine through.

 

Our waiter tried to viciously attack Longshot, threatening him menacingly with a glass of Coke which he then proceeded to spill upon our hapless victim.

 

Not wanting to be left out, Mustang also doused our victim with soda. Longshot was forced to hold the Caution: Wet Floor sign.

 

Mustang was so utterly fascinated by the tortilla bag at Chevy's that he posed for a picture with one. The bag's contents were created by El Machino.

 

 

Vargon, Longshot, and Mustang. You can't tell, but Longshot's pants are a wet, sopping mess.

 

Here's Longshot, Jaz, and Mustang. Yes, Longshot's still wet.

 

Here is an artist's representation of El Machino, the bringer of tortillas to all the free people of the world.