Chapter 25
Maggie Valley, NC
MIKE PULLED THE rental car into the garage, and we went into the recreation room and turned on the lights. There was a huge box on the floor just inside the people door. “It’s here,” Mike said. He went to the box and tore open the little plastic pouch that contained the packing slip.
“What’s here?”
“Our hammock.”
“You ordered a hammock?”
“Surprise, surprise. Come on, let’s unload the car in a hurry. I want to set this sucker up on the deck right now.”
We spent the next few minutes unloading the car, carrying stuff upstairs, and stowing it. That being done, we went downstairs and opened the box, carefully laying the various pieces on the floor.
“The three most-dreaded words in the English language are ‘some assembly required’,” I said. “Do we have enough
