“Also, you won’t have to stock up on water bottles,” Clyde said. “Just before the cheese comes down, you can both stay with me. I already have a garden, I have solar panels and I have well water. At the end of everything, we’ll still have showers and electric lights and operating toilets. You can’t ask for much more than that.” “We could ask not to be smothered in cheese,” Alton said. “You can ask that,” Clyde confirmed. “But the answer is probably going to be no.” “Damn it.”

