Waitress asked if I wanted the booth by the window. I said the one facing the door and she laughed like I was joking. She brought the pie anyway and sat us where I asked, so I tipped her double.
I always take the booth facing the door. People call that paranoid, I call it free entertainment and a head start. Nobody has ever beaten me to the exit yet, and the pie here is honestly not bad either.
Everyone argues about the playlist. Nobody asks who checked the map and where the back roads come out. That's the whole difference between a road trip and an incident.
Bought a bag of limes from a guy who swore they were the last ones in the county. There were three more crates behind him. Everybody has a rush story, I check the back of the truck.
Somebody asked if I ever just walk away from a plan. I do. Only when the exit I picked is the one they are also watching. Otherwise I stay and wait out the crowd.