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Mike felt strong, confident. Mike felt unsure at first, anxious, but Mike thought that he was entitled to a treat after all the late hours he had put in at the office. The Cybertruck just felt right.
Mike was taking the Cybertruck out for a test-drive. Brand new, shining in the light, stainless steel with the $5000 clear protective coating. Out to the desert, down a dirt road. Dry, clean, cool. Mike sipped a bit of a "treat", not enough to make him drunk exactly.
Time. Timeless.
Mike pulled over, and took a leak by the edge of the road. Salty perspiration. Black hairs on a pale stomach under flannel. Out from coarse clean blue jeans. A short length of white rubber between black leather gloves. A stream of water through the dust mixing into mud.
The way back things were getting kind of muggy, an uneasy wet heat. Pressure changes always gave Mike a headache.
Little drops of fluid flecked rivulets down the truck's heavy body. Pattering down through the cracks the rain flowed down between the large black truck nuts Mike had put on the Cybertruck as a joke. Mike had gotten stuck in the mud.
Mike paused again to gulp down another little "treat" of his. Mike pushed down on the pedal. The Cybertruck spun fruitlessly in the mud and the storm.
"I'm no bigot, I'm a libertarian." Mike said. "The Cybertruck is strong, bulletproof, impenetrable. What's a Subaru going to do?"
The tall woman in a red dress frowned. "Well it's not going to tow it, of course, but we could get you unstuck."
A shorter woman in a black goth getup peeked out from behind the back of the Cybertruck. "He didn't even try placing a mat down!"
Mike paused, and slurred out, "Um well you see uh."
The goth picked up an empty can from the floor of the Cybertruck. "Good grief, have you been drinking?"
Mike sat in the back of the Subaru curled up in a blanket. Laci, the woman in the red dress, sat in the driver's seat of the Subaru. Lilith, the goth, sat in the driver's seat of the Cybertruck.
The women counted out loud, and Mike mumbled along, "5, 4, 3, 2, 1!"