This is followed by useless exposition and backstory about the DJ (Lacy), extremely boring crap about how the categories of songs are mixed up through the day, incorrect tense, poor grammar, and more of Dan's shitty driving.
I think Dan lied about being a great driver.
More amusing the vernacular is gone the moment Dan walks into work and starts talking to Lacy. Magic. She keeps calling him "Big Guy" complete with capital letters.
"Dan pushed through the news room door and grabbed yesterday's local news folder."
Don't you use the same fucking word twice in one sentence, Lint. Show, don't tell. And get an editor for your fucking grammar, you twat.
Lacy is upset and crying about some car accident. Dan asks her if she's having a, quote, "guilt thing" about it.
I don't know if Lint is trying to make him a sympathetic character here; he really tried to push that with "family man" and "attentive husband" but with all of his "I'm a great driver" and the Amish people with this too, he's just a total douche.
For two paragraphs, Lacy describes what it was like to be on the phone with a stranger when he called the radio show and crashed the truck. She obviously needs therapy. Does anyone recommend it? Do I really need to answer that? Psychology and medication for mental illness are sins. You know it's all the devil.
"The hassle of getting out of the driveway, the tangle with the Amish sleigh, getting in 30 minutes later than he usually did, plus Lacey's state of mind over the accident, to say nothing of the hard knot of excitement at the pit of his stomach at the idea of being, as Lacey put it, the "big guy" now."
What? That's it? All you've got there is a list, a stream of consciousness, a recap of everything that's happened in this chapter so far and the chapter previous to it, for no fucking reason because it's an incomplete sentence? Did you even reread your own goddamn book, you senile goat?
That's rude. I apologize. Goats are adorable.
A-fucking-dorable.
This caused me physical pain:
"Lacey said, 'Your Penn State farming friends are ready to tell the world how a black cow can chew green grass and give white milk which churns yellow butter. Anything else before I take off.'"
I don't know whether the subject matter or the grammar is worse. I guess Lint would say the answer is "Jesus". Christian college has got to be the easiest thing ever: Every answer is "Jesus". Here's your PhD in bull shit.
She leaves by kissing him on the forehead, which Lint describes as "daughterly" and as someone with coworkers, I would describe as totally inappropriate.
Dan is relieved to see her go and seems to think she is "over the worst of her depression". Uh, no--doesn't look like it from my end and I'm the outsider only peeking in for a few lines of dialogue, dude.
He starts DJ-ing and that's just how it ends.
Speaking as someone who has read a book before, I think this entire chapter was wasteful, its only purpose to set up the next chapter, which will likely be when the rapture actually happens. I called it here, folks.
There are 26 chapters.
