Coconuts
"What the hell is this?"
"What?"
"This wet sticky stuff all over the bedroll, dumbass."
"Now who's the dumbass – what the hell you think it is!"
"Naw – it's not . .. . .this smells like . . . I don't know . . . some kind of fruit or sumpin."
"Oh …..... no, that's not fruit – coconut, it smells like coconut."
"Coconut ain't a fruit?"
"Grows on those big palm trees in Hawaii or sumpin."
"Yeah grows on trees –like
FRUIT"!
"Oh. Yeah. Never really thought about it before – but it smells good, don't it?"
"I dunno – you ever gonna tell me what the hell it is or you gonna go on all night about coconuts and fruit and shit?"
"It's sunscreen lotion."
"Sunscreen? .. . . . for what?"
"For your pale white ass, dumbass. Don't you remember what happened last time? Shit, I couldn't sit still for a week!"
"Oh. Yeah."
"Okay, then, drop 'em, cowboy – I'll do you and you do me. Deal?"
"Sun's been down for three hours, dumbass."
"Don't matter – now I've got a hankering for coconut."
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