We stopped at an ATM. I waited in the car while he shed his long leather coat and left it on the hood. Suddenly, a hand snatched it! An engine screeched! The coat gone! He slammed from the glassed-in ATM and tossed himself on the thief's hood. Off they went down the road! Tremendous cursing! I walked to the lot's edge. He hung on, punched and punched the windshield until it cracked under his ring-bedecked fingers. After a nerve-wracking moment, he jounced jollily down the sidewalk, grinning, wearing his leather jacket. The thieves had tossed it from the passenger-side window.
Mary Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019). She currently lives in Beaver, West Virginia. Find Mary Ann online at maryannhonaker.wordpress.com.