Jason Slunk Away
grey stucco urinal- able to give him a bath
- before I put down this shot glass
- merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another
- a gathering you weren’t invited to in the first place
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Jason slunk away, winking heavily at me over his shoulder and pointing to the sign for the restrooms, then waving for me to follow. Nobody paid any attention to him. It was a stunning display of Contra-Buffoon, a tricky form of tradecraft where your actions are so clumsy that they come all the way around to be subtle again.
I excused myself, picking up my drink and heading for the gents so I could swap disguises with Jason. I found him using a grey stucco urinal. The nearby terracotta toilet was so large, I would have been able to give him a bath in it.
“Stop that,” I said. “And come take the wig before I put down this shot glass and then we’ll trade shoes.” Swapping our outfits would be merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another, and then another, and so on until all the articles had been transferred. A good disguise is essential to sneaking out of a gathering you weren’t invited to in the first place.
We had just completed the process when I heard the door open. We both froze.
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