"When I eased open the door, I encountered no tattooed thug, which meant that gravity would soon fail and that bears would henceforth leave the woods to toilet in public lavatories."
(Forever Odd by Dean Koontz, pg. 151).
This is just one of many reasons that I love Dean Koontz. After sitting in an airport for an extra 2 and a half hours due to a delay with our chosen airline, and suffering from my third really horrible cold of the season, he managed to get a giggle out of me while in flight on my way home after my Christmas vacation.
I have tooted Dean Koontz's horn a lot in this blog. He deserves it! He makes me laugh when I can't imagine that I even have the proper ingredients inside myself to mix together a nice batch of laughter. He makes me cry...which isn't the hardest thing to do...but, to do it simply through written words on a page is pretty incredible in my mind. The man is a genius with words.
So, he took 2 old sayings, "What goes up must come down" and, "Does a bear shit in the woods?" And he just reworked them to suit the situation perfectly and managed to grab a giggle out of a woman who was progressively getting more and more aggravated at the inconsiderate, incompetent, piss poor service of her chosen airline. No, I will not call them out in this rather public forum as I don't want to get into any trouble. Just trust me when I say that they were not only 2 and a half hours late, but when they switched gates on us, the gate agent came on over the loud speaker a grand total of one time to holler at everyone that our gate had changed. I got up and quickly went to make sure that the hubby and I heard correctly and caught her with her coat on, her purse on her shoulder, grabbing her carry on and making a mad rush for the new gate. I stopped her, asked if she said our gate had been changed, got the bitchiest, shortest answer. A very snotty "Yes!". Then, to made triple sure, I specified my flight number and got another aggravated and emphatic "Yes!". This bitch needs some serious customer service training, STAT!
So, back to the point of this post...I adore Dean Koontz for a lot of reasons and now, I can add his ability to take me from pissed off to giggling in one short paragraph!
So, given my long airport wait, I finished half of this book on the way home from my Christmas trip and the last half of it today!
Again, Bravo Dean Koontz! Forever Odd is another edge of your seat read in the Odd Thomas series! I loved it! It starts off gripping and leaves you hoping for more!
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