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Burned Spies Need Insurance Too!
My name is Bruce and my best friend was a spy, until she got burned. She
can’t find a job, her credit’s shot, she’s got no house and no car; they
took away everything – except what they taught her to survive. Since I
used to be in the same game, we teamed up to use our skills to help the
little guy and yeah, make a few bucks in the process. How else am I
going to pay my temp car insurance premiums?
Why temp insurance? I gotta tell you, when your average day consists of
car chases, explosions, and gunshots, well, your car pays a price. No
one ever thinks of that when they’re watching those cool Jason Bourne
chase scenes, though, do they? My regular insurance carrier dropped me
after that first week saving the world with AJ. My agent didn’t buy my
story that the bullet hole, two flat tires, blown out windshield, and
missing back bumper happened in the grocery store parking lot.
You can buy temp car insurance in
the UK here!
Since you can’t really save the world rocking a city bus pass, AJ and I
found a cheap car that we figured a few bullet holes might actually
improve – an ’83 Chevette, which I know is not the kind of car you think
of when you hear “spy”. Let me just say that, in Miami, a car without
air conditioning sucks; at least a couple of bullet holes would make for
a nice breeze. And just because we operate like vigilantes doesn’t mean
we ignore the law, that’s not what vigilantism is about! The law says
you have to have car insurance, we make sure we have car insurance. But
that last claim I made kind of scared off any future insurance agents,
so I looked into short term options. Since the cars weren’t likely to be
long term, it seemed like a good fit.
A couple days after we buy the Chevette, we’re running from this
gunrunner whose favorite hobby is terrorizing single moms who might
testify against him. He’s got us trapped in a parking garage and I’m
thinking curtains, right? I mean, how are we going to get out of this
one? There’s like a half a dozen two-ton SUVs waiting for us, all of
them heavily armed, and here we are in a Chevette! I’ve had lunchboxes
bigger than this car. But, here’s where the expendability of your car
can come in handy when you’re saving the world and whatnot, not to
mention the full-on crazy of one burned spy. AJ’s face breaks into that
smile I’ve learned to fear and the next thing I know, we’re flying
through the garage and down the exit ramp and we’ve plowed our way
through two big honkin’ black Escalades. Black streaks now decorate the
Chevette’s driver and passenger doors, the side mirrors are only a
memory, and AJ makes a two-wheeled right turn onto Jackson, right as the
cops close in on the SUVs.
Croesus
Elphinstone
Stalin
Johnson
Guy de Lusignon
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