Mr. Ballin

He opened it up and he began looking through it, looking for, you know, the section that would explain what to do in case of, you know, total power outage and you're stuck inside the vehicle.

But like as he's looking at the pages, like his vision's swimming, it's so hard.

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He's so tired and he just, it's all this little text.

It's hundreds and hundreds of pages and like nothing explained the situation.

It was like so not user-friendly.

And so James, he's flipping through all these pages and even just the act of turning the page was becoming so laborious.

Like he is just beginning to shut down.

I mean, he's basically dying inside of an oven and he can barely turn the page.

And then before long, after about a quarter of the way through, it's like,

He couldn't see anymore, and he literally, just like he couldn't turn the page anymore, he had no strength left.

MJ, so James's buddy, the guy in his 60s who was also a regular at the Waffle House, he's inside the Waffle House.

He's having his breakfast and his coffee.

He knew James had stepped out.

You know, he was going to be right back and he did not come right back.

But he figured no big deal.

Like, you know, he probably got caught up with something.

Maybe he forgot that he had ordered food.

But, you know, MJ, he's got all these reasons for why James has not come back to the restaurant.

And also, MJ being a regular, he's chatting it up with other people.