Clyde and Caesar needed a wheelbarrow to get the giant clown’s body off Carnival Island and into the back of Bingo’s car. The second they were outside Carnie territory, they both gasped with relief.
“I thought we were dead back there,” Caesar said.
“It’s been my recurring thought all day,” Clyde said.
They bought a sturdy chain and enough weight to sink an elephant, then they attached it to the clown’s body and tossed him in the river. As he sank, the two cleaners watched the water to make sure he went down.
“So that’s it?” Caesar asked.
“That’s it,” Clyde said. “We just need to ditch the car, get our stuff back at the clown’s place, then get the heck out of this shithole circus town.”
As they turned to go back to the car, the water exploded behind them. Somebody gasped for air. The cleaners didn’t want to turn back. Even when they heard the chains rattling across the ground, they didn’t want to believe it was true.
“It can’t be…,” Clyde said.
“How the hell is it possible?” Caesar said. “He was dead. You saw.”
Then Bingo stepped up next to them, pulling the chains off his arms.
“I think you guys were right,” the clown said. “I think next time I’m going to have to go in there with a plan.”
“You can’t be serious…” Clyde shook his head. He should’ve known the day was never going to end.
Bingo held out his hand. “What I need is some gasoline, some lube, and one of those collars that those dominatrix girls wear.”
The next thing the cleaners knew, they were at a clown sex shop on the main strip of Little Bigtop.
Bingo looked at the clown woman at the register, holding up a glittery pink leather choke collar. His blood trickled down his arm onto the counter.
“I’d like the biggest one of these you got in stock,” he said.
Even with the Carnie’s knife still sticking out the side of his throat, Bingo was as casual as if nothing were wrong with him at all. The cashier couldn’t take her eyes off his disfigured condition as she rang up his order.
“And some lube,” Bingo said with an incredibly serious look on his face. “I’m going to need a lot of lube.”
The two cleaners tried to pretend as though they weren’t with him.