For those of you that live in Auckland, especially around Blockhouse Bay, you've probably seen this truck. I once saw it 5 times in one day. I see it EVERYWHERE. The same one. Same license plate. Hell, I've even seen it in Whangaparoa. So, here goes.
You are walking down to the town centre, to meet with your mates. It's a beautiful day, bright and sunny. As you walk down the street, you get the feeling someone's watching you. You shrug the feeling off, thinking "Who cares?"
There's a steady flow of traffic on the road, typical for a day like this, near the end of school holidays. Families are going out to parks and beaches, and various trucks and vans emblazoned with logos pass by. The area you live in is reasonably multi-cultural, and the trucks are labelled with things like 'Tegel's Chicken' to 'Sam's Fukuyama' Noticing these things is a regular habit for you, you don't know why, but you don't particularly care why. It does no harm.
You meet your mates, and you decide to get lunch and sit in the park. On the way, you notice the 'Sam's Fukuyama' truck and point it out to your mates, laughing at the name. They look at you bizarrely; it must have just turned around the corner. You forget all about this over the course of the day.
On the way home, you see the truck again. It seems to slow down as it passes you, but that's probably just your imagination. However, seeing the same truck three times in one day is unusual, as trucks usually just pass through your area. So when you get home, you decide to figure out what 'Sam's Fukuyama' is. Strangely enough, there's no listing for it in the Yellow Pages. Confused, you do a quick google search, but to no avail. Nothing. Searching 'Fukuyama' however, brings up nothing apart from a news article a couple of years old, about an escapee from an insane asylum.
You hear the slamming of a car door.
You look out your window.
It's Sam Fukuyama.
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