[ WP ] You come up with an outlandish and false excuse as to why you are late , and your date is very suspicious . You are almost called out on your lie when a news story blows up and unintentionally confirms your story .

`` A meteorite? a stinking hunk of space rock? I'm supposed to believe that a meteorite crushed your car and not only that but your neighbors fought you for the rock and punched the taxi driver and that you ran the whole way here?'' He asked me. 
 `` Yes'' said I 
 `` I'm leaving.'' said he 
 The whole restaurant had their eyes on us. The melodrama was palpable. I wiped the sweat from my eyes and rose with him. He turned dramatically and my eyes dropped. I only heard his footsteps and a muttering about respect. 
 At the door Melvin collided with a man in a slouch cap and green trousers. 
 `` You'' the man shouted across the room. `` You owe me twenty four fifty'' 
 I guess the situation for taxis is bad enough where they'll chase down a customer. Underneath the cap one eye was black and the other was blinking rapidly. 
 
 Out the door I saw Melvin arguing with one of my neighbors. Behind the pair my other neighbor was bolting down the street with a TV news crew. The first neighbor backed off into the street where both neighbors and TV news crew were smashed into gore by a wave of space rocks. Melvin turned to me with guilt in his eyes and was promptly squished flatter than a pancake by a something moving from the sky faster than my eye could follow. 
 
 I shrugged, it was better than admitting I missed the bus and now I did n't have to try to keep a lie going. I motioned to a dumb struck waiter, that is when the afternoon started to get interesting.
