Who: North and Rodeo Where: Downtown Austin What: Skateboarding 101 When: May 13, afternoon
It's hard to find a grocery store that isn't picked clean in downtown Austin these days. The supplies closest to the civilian shelters are getting more and more scarce, which sucks for the shelter-dwellers and not for Rodeo. Supplies in the other parts of the city are far less limited, which means that his men won't go hungry and that Rodeo can afford to have a little fun with some of his rations. A man's got to have a hobby, after all. Sitting around in an empty grocery store waiting for a hungry scavenger desperate enough to barter with him seems like a perfectly acceptable leisure-time activity to him.
Rodeo has parked himself on a lawn chair, lounging in the magazine aisle as he waits for some action. He has a knapsack filled with canned foods, toothbrushes, and a few candy bars sitting on the floor beside his chair, and he sips on a can of Dixie as he flips through an old issue of Cosmo. He's found that women's magazines are fantastic apocalypse reading materials, because they make him totally glad the world ended.
He gulps his beer and tears open a folded perfume sample attached to a glossy picture of a woman wearing a diamond necklace in an empty cow field. He purses his lips and sniffs the page, but it doesn't smell like diamonds or cows or illogically placed women in evening wear. Rodeo sighs and tosses the magazine aside, whipping it across the tile. He's about to give up on his stake-out when he finally hears the sound of someone entering the store.