they’ve heard him listening to lots of Elvis too and even the Boss Bruce Springsteen This guy is so open-minded it is sickening He’d obviously found some channel on the music feed on the plane that was giving him newer stuff and he’d just started getting down And of course he was multitasking I guess when you’ve flown dangerous missions in a war and been all over the world doing amazing things like climbing mountains in your spare time you’ve got to have that sort of talent He was reading and he’d been at it just about all the way across the ocean as he nonchalantly flew in that deadly machine listening to music and smiling at me Reading Not exactly my idea of a scintillating time I wished I had my cell phone with me or at least the cell that would finally be mine on my thirteenth birthday Grandpa was some sort of speed reader too of course He must have read about three or four books on that flight He handed me The Little 6 shane peacock
Prince when we boarded along with another hard clap on the back That novel was a big fave of his one he had read to me and all the cousins over the years I didn’t entirely get it really a story almost like a fable about this weird person this small prince from another planet who was involved in a plane crash Perfect A plane crash I only pretended to read it as I sat there worrying Grandpa had already read the Sherlock Holmes thriller The Hound of the Baskervilles which actually sounded kind of cool with a massive dog with glowing eyes and murder and all that stuff and had almost finished a Swedish crime novel which he’d started plowing into about halfway into the flight He was kind of holding the cover away from me and I had the feeling that maybe the story inside was a bit inappropriate for someone my age maybe a tad violent and all You wouldn’t think the famously happy-go-lucky Swedes would be up to that sort of thing I certainly didn’t but they actually were Big-time I’d done some research about 7 separated
them on Mom’s laptop the week before we left and it actually kind of freaked me out That should have been my first clue that this trip to Sweden was going to be a whole lot scarier than I ever could have imagined 8 shane peacock
two I had expected to find all sorts of information online about how wonderful Sweden was and I did for a while The stuff I found talked about ABBA cool furniture and architecture hip clothes nice safe cities and hockey or ice hockey as they called it which would really make my Canadian cousins barf and how there were so few poor people and how the government paid for all your medical bills and the fact that they had a king The whole place was very liberal too which would upset lots of Americans since if you call yourself a liberal in my country many of us 9
