(what was going to happen was the narrator who is not right in the head - not sure if he's actually retarded or just very mentally ill -

chapter 2 of this story is where the narrator takes a long bus ride to a strange city
and gets off the bus and starts putting on an elaborate act of mental retardation;
trying, in fact, to be institutionalized;

Chapter 3 is where he is finally institutionalized and then tries to convince his captors that the retardation is reversing itself;

Chapter 4 is where his bluff is called and he is semi-publicly excoriated in the hospital lobby;

Chapter 5 is where he hops another bus and moves on to another town, where he solicits a prostitute and gets her and himself terribly drunk and in trouble. This narrator always has money because of his mysteriously received monthly "Estate check" which is another story

What was going to happen was the narrator, who is not right in the head - not sure if he's actually retarded or just very mentally ill - finally gets to the basement, where he's hidden a blue thermal long underwear suit (top and bottom) and a red bandana mask

which he wears do-rag style, except pulled down over his eyes with eyeholes cut out. And a red cape worn draped from his neck, made from a huge piece of heavy bright red canvas stolen off a roll from the hatchback of Mrs. Healy's sister-in-law (when that lady was parked in the

driveway.) OK,

the narrator has a superhero outfit hidden downstairs, and his goal is to outfit himself and run out to the plane crash in the field by the highway.

Jim has some drunken hijinks in there.

Abdul is a mystery. can you see

why I'm not finishing this one? or maybe I will. who

gives a fuck?)