She shakes her head and wraps her arms around herself like the AC makes her cold instead of being a fucking blessing. "I don't need anything." "Yes, you do," I say, grabbing her wrist. I seize a metal cart and shove it at her. "If you can't get your shit yourself, we'll stick together. You push."
Her brow furrows, and she examines the cart, the wheels, everything. "Well, ain't this something?" she asks at last. "I wish I'd had
one of these when I killed a gator. I could have pushed it home instead of dragging it by the tail."
The thought of her dragging a five-hundred-pound alligator through the bog tickles my funny bone, and I can't help but laugh. "Yeah, babe, you could have pushed him home through the swamp."