Savages

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Ben drops Chon off at Seizure World—

—a retirement community really called Leisure World, so you figure it out—

—after midnight when the old people are asleep, but before 4:00 AM, when they all wake up again—

—and Chon walks around until he finds a Lincoln he likes. It takes him eighteen seconds to jimmy the door, another thirty to hot-wire it (“fruits of a misspent youth”), and he drives it away and hides it in a strip mall parking lot in SJC, where Ben picks him up.

“You know what you get when you cross a Mexican with a Chinese?” Chon asks.

“What?”

“A car thief who can’t drive.”