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After Unsolved Mysteries
Hector attempted to cross the Trojan border
five times. Sentries thought him over-nervous,
with excess cash-turned him back. He purchased
passage (coach) to Munich at a travel
agency, drove to the airport in Vancouver,
refunded his plane ticket, rented a car
from Avis (a blue Nissan Maxima), allowed
across at another border point. Drove
direct to Seattle airport-paid double
for a one-way ticket to Berlin, but departed
(on layover) in Washington. At Dulles
he rented a Mercury Coup (another shade
blue, but a sporty two-door). The following
day Hector arrived in Asheville. Filling
his gas tank at Mike's Garage, told the proprietor
his car would no longer start. Examining
the Nissan key, the mechanic informed him it
was the wrong one. Angered, Hector insisted
it had been igniting the engine. Mike towed it
to the back lot and ordered a new key
from Mercury. The security camera
at the Blue Ridge Motel showed Hector appeared
in the lobby five times before braving the clerk.
Hector left the building not venturing
inside his rented room and was found sprawled naked
in the garage parking lot at 3a.m., smeared
with oil, his back, arms and legs ground with asphalt.
Surrounding him: Turkish, German, and American
currency. An unopened nylon fanny-pack
contained $9,000 in jewelry,
gold and platinum. By his body-the lost key
to the Mercury. Hector's aging father, when
given the news, was inconsolable, more so
when a legal mix-up ceased the casket's return.
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