The Time Truck Coffee Stop off

By Paul Stansby

The rewrite now completed in December 2021, in nine parts, Parts one to five currently free
College leavers from Preston Uk attending the Glastonbury Festival UK meet up with some Hollywood film actresses around their age who are incognito, after a couple of days both parties plan to backpack over to Australia, the college leavers on the budget tour, the Hollywood girls on the VIP tour. They arrive in Sydney whereupon the boys think of ideas to finance the rest of the tour, in the Uk party are three girls and two boys. With the help from the Hollywood girls they find somebody to assist with a project they've come up with to initially commence selling coffee on Bondi beach. At the launch on Bondi a space dude turns up whose managed to get his ship buried under a collapsed cliff after landing it in the UK, he's seeking assistance from the the guy the Hollywood Girls know as he can slip into alternative dimensions as in parallels or multiverses so space dude, he's called X in the story hopes this guy can slip into one where his craft is not buried so he can move it before the event.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Stansby
• Release date: Feb 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005599171

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© Paul Stansby, Falmouth UK,

  2017-2018 

The Time Truck Coffee Stop off

    Part one

Set in Sydney, Australia & Grenada

Fiction In Nine parts

Part One:

Backpackers,

Chapter One: Down in the historical docks  near The Sydney harbour bridge. Tom is walking along with Danny

Tom: Scratching around for pennies in this city is tedious, we maybe be better up in Brisbane and see some action along the surf, nothing much up Bondi.

Dan: How about a stall up there.

Tom: Treading on too many people’s toes, the local lads would come down in the night and rip it apart.

Dan: How about a van, we’ve all seen the film of the frustrated chef who goes on the road with a food van selling tacos.

Tom:  A van could be good, the two Hollywood beauties were wooing men surfing at the Bondi yesterday and Annabelle was filling up her memory card as she was filming the occasion.

Dan: That’ll be worth checking out, maybe they’d be interested.

Tom: Could be as they’re getting to hang out up at the beach with all those giant Aussie boys, there’s the permits, health regulations and the finance.

Dan: Well they speak kinda of English and we’re not competing with the Chinese as food trucks aren’t their thing.

Tom: Yeah those flaming woks aren’t ideal for a truck.

Dan: Yep most likely have to make the whole thing of stainless steel. 

Tom: A heavy expensive beast with no time travel possibilities.

Dan: It would totally need a rocket to move it, mind you The Rocket Wok has a kinda of good ring to it.

Tom: The Rock Stop Cappuccino, or the Cappuccino Stop Off, no doubt Hollywood will have some ideas, nice paint job on the wagon with pictures of the girls on the side panels, spice up the Bondi.

Dan: With the two Hollywood girls, we could maybe swing it with the authorities by presenting the possibilities of a movie

Tom: Travel up to Bondi and experience the Time Truck Stop off, actually do it in brushed stainless steel and keep the dream going.

Dan: Girls could do a range of coffees, Galaxy Cappuccino, the The Decaf Delorean, the Time Expresso and The Mars special, that’s if we can use that, but a company can’t franchise a whole planet, well its thirsty work thinking in this heat.

Tom: I’ll stick my card in the machine and see if my mum has stuck my great grandfather’s loot is in my account yet.

Dan: Yep we’ll toast him as we drink a beer along the harbour wall.

Chapter Two Up at the rental of CJ and BB in the Sydney suburbs.

Lottie: I wander whose place this is.

Jenny: They’d said it was rental and got it through a TV company, so must be one of their houses they use for regular shoots and most likely trying to entice CJ into a couple of episodes, suits us been camped out on the lawn next to the pool as most of the house is under dust covers.

Lottie: We’re just getting by on the basics, no frills, see what the guys come up with.

Tess: I can cope with basics with this great pool. Tom was hoping for some loot from his great grandfather’s estate, so if his luck is in and its come through the two will be having some beers

Jenny: BB and CJ are coming back in their car rental so we can all go down the Bondi Beach and watch them surfing. 

Tess: They’re west coast US environment upbringing coming in well here, certainly all the boys are taken with them, we’ve got little chance against these tall blonde Australian girls of attracting much in the way of boys, the girls are real friendly.

Lottie: We were made in Newcastle and Sunderland, Tyne Side Uk, not in the fresh air and blue skies of Sydney.

Jenny: Just missing my cell phone.

Lottie: Outside Europe is too expensive, mum does tend to chat a lot mostly on stuff of little consequence.

Jenny: We all do with unlimited minutes at home. The bronzing has come along well.

Tess : The different climate changes one’s lifestyle, midday sun is to be avoided, these loungers are in the shade around the pool. 

Jenny: I miss the activity of day to day routine, not me specifically my organised brain that enjoys its daily function and exercise. 

Tess: Oh I’m the same, nursery school to university, I did an extra year like you so that’s thereabouts twenty years of learning and stimulation. I’m missing my addiction to daily knowledge arriving so let’s see what we all come up with being five of us, find out what we’re missing and our combined thoughts will come across new avenues. 

Lottie: Most likely the boys will suss something soon, their futuristic whereas we are down to earth, we all did art and they did science.

Tess: You’d think that would be the other way around, art being for dreamers and imaginations and science for fundamentalists who are in touch with all the planets characteristics.

Lottie: It’s our female side of us bringing life into the world gives us a more practical and realistic approach, our artistic bent is how we interpret our flow through life with music, art and books, so they cross over, something not to generalise on, knowing the person puts them more into perspective. 

Jenny: Yep, we find a Mr Right, and there’s plenty over here, and fall into our next cycle of house, home and family, which of course if we want children with our Mr Right and that’s something you can’t do later and then the turbulence again in around twenty years when our children leave home and fend for themselves and we would most likely turn to the job front to occupy ourselves.

Tess: Unless you’re actors, start early in a profession and at twenty-five have a good head start on most, like CJ and BB, but of course their blessed with talent and beauty which makes a total difference.

Lottie: Twenty year cycles, education, motherhood, wilderness then retirement so our lives take more planning and the need for interesting pursuits for something to move along later in life, keep in touch with our endgame.  Jenny: Find a mix and possibly be in control through our motherhood to our endgame, life after forty to forty-five, at least we have lots of time to think on these things. 

Lottie: At least we’re seeing many alternatives on our backpacking experience, bagging an Aussie and staying here would be a good one though there’s little likelihood of that.

Jenny: They’ll be wanting to move along to no doubt, the grass is always greener on a new patch.

Lottie: New pitch with this lot, they’re cricket mad, a game I know nothing about. Beach ball is fun to play and watch. Ah here’s the sound of the CJ’s rental get the latest report from the beach, surf and talent, hopefully Annie, so we can see her shots of the surfing, ogle some of these surfers .

A 4x4 pulls up on the gravel drive and there’s the sound of three doors 

Jenny: Yep, the back looks to be full of carriers so I’ll help

Tess: I’ll get the barbecue going, famished I wonder what the boys are up to, here’s CJ, hi you’ve the boys. 

CJ: They are at that hot bar on the harbour front, so we had some beers with them, or at least I did BB’s driving.  Tom’s got some loot also full of an idea which is good, bizarre to start with but would certainly attract attention, A time travelling van serving donuts and coffee, we added the donuts, done out with brushed stainless steel panels as the Delorean was with lots of whacky sounding coffees which we we’re right into, it would be different from our staid Barista experiences in the other cities we’ve been to, though Bangkok was wild, wow one week there and it was time to move on from the bars. We’re super for the coffee bars business, I got 100 dollars for two signed take away coffee pots.

BB: Great the barbecue is smoking, oh Bangkok was incredulous, Annie got a whole album in just a week of CJ’s and BB’s Bangkok Experience, looking forward to seeing the surfing shots on The Bondi beach surf, she’s just unpacking as she went wild today shopping for she got a 50k advance from her publishers to keep her going along with us

Lottie: Money went a long way when we were in Vietnam, down in Nam, then went up to Phuket, lots of other backpackers around too, sounds interesting this coffee van idea. 

CJ: Oh, its excellent, especially to attract youngsters for sugar free drinks and low carb food would be onboard for sure with lots of wild sounding names, move along the American Diner there’s a new boy in town. 

Lottie: They’ve a name 

CJ: Oh yes, it’s The Time Truck Stop Off, kinda of catchy. 

BB: I just hope there’s room for a frozen yogurt bar on it, love the stuff especially in this heat and I can’t find it many places, Coffee bars are missing it.

CJ: Oh yes, good film potential, CJ & BB’s Amazing Food Truck Adventures, it’s good to get around the world, new faces and scenery inspires and creates.

Lottie: Did the boys say they're coming back?

CJ: Ah, no they’re hitting the flicks, new Star Wars movie, and no doubt a second one, the places are air conditioned so a good place to be on a hot and humid afternoon, the other alternatives are the beach or pool.

BB: We’re staying up here in the afternoons, there’s too much sun after 11am then early evening, watch the sunset and chill in the Pool. 

Lottie: It’s remarkable that the press don’t bother checking up on you two up here.

BB: There’s webcams around the property and all the reporters are easily identifiable so the intrusion laws that are enforced over here sorts that out.

CJ: Those Drone Cams got all the laws updated, there’s a number of Drone Cams on the beaches as the surfers are keen and they are sticking adventure cams on the surf boards too. Hi there Annie, those are large chops 

Annie: Yep, sure are good sized pieces of mutton, have to find out how they barbecue, I’ve never done sheep before on one . 

Lottie: Slow I’d imagine, I’ll stand by with a bottle of water to dampen it down for it’ll flare up with the fat dropping through, best done in the oven, but we’ll give it a go, get the full on Australian outdoor experience, there's few days in the UK you could do this.

Annie: They’re thick ones so maybe have them tonight and have steaks this afternoon, put them in the oven on low and just finish them off on the barbecue tonight, good thinking. This evening we can check out the surfing shots.

Lottie: What do you think of the coffee truck idea.

Annie: Excellent, there’s a wide range of transfers that could be made up that would look good on the stainless steel but a pricey job for a van to be done out but superb marketing for selling coffee and accompanying items which there’s good profit margin on, I’m surprised that a popular item as coffee has not been exploited more.

Lottie: There’s some very good decaf coffees for the people that like the taste that don’t want the stimulation.

Annie: A project for us all to do, come up with some designs for the trucks, not a shortage of boys who would want to help customising them, this is right up boy street, so a bonus for us.

Tess: That’s good, barbecue is about the right heat, so its these thick chops back in the fridge and steaks out, let’s hope the boys have some interest in us as well their customising, their fascination in cars and bikes amazes me.

Lottie: Too hot for wearing leathers over here, for girls look good in them in the UK on their boyfriend bikes, of course its 25 degrees cooler.

Tess: You’d pass out, or evaporate in a pool of liquid like the robot in terminator, steak time there’s a weight in these chops I’ve picked up, I’ll be back shortly. 

Chapter Three outside the cinema In the city 

Danny: Stood the test time those movies, they get more incredulous as they move on to the third generation of youths, the new girls are good. 

Tom: To coin a phrase, we’re well hooked, girls and the movies they’re in.

Danny: How about our present acquaintances.

Tom: Well out of our league, we’ll never make their grade, not sure who would, still cool knowing them and going into Kentucky Fried with them. Beers? 

Danny: Yep, lets reflect on that movie before hitting another one maybe a walk up to asiatic take-aways.

They go along to the bar along the waterfront. 

Danny: loads of stunning girls in here. 

Tom: You can get blasé over here, or rather down here about the girls, not sure what our pitch is, we’re backpacking around the world on virtually zero. I think the expectancy of life for these girls in here are high with masses of charm and wit passed about them, we certainly don’t look the sort to whisk them off for a good night out.

Danny: A car would be good, one with air conditioning even better, let’s give it a whirl, we’ve been seen knocking about with BB and CJ, may have got some of them curious, 

Tom: Possible, there's always the odd one fancying a bit of rough,

Danny: I think that’s possible reserved for the rock genre, Katie Perry & Russel Brand for instance. Two beers please, large ones.

Barmaid: You’re not with your famous friends tonight. 

Tom: No, we’ve got some cash tonight so out on the town, they left us here for the night.

Barmaid: Ooh generous, there’s load of us in here curious as hell about them, we’ve never met Hollywood stars before, well Hollywood anybody.

Tom: Oh, so our luck may be in.

Barmaid: You’ll be spoilt something rotten tonight, you’re the nearest we’ll get to get to knowing them, so don’t go shooting off, the party girls will be down in a flash when I text them and they’ll whisk off to some of their favourite nightclubs then you might drag your friends down to them. here’s your beers

They go and sit down 

Tom: A knock on effect, I suppose we’re used to them and forget how incredibly popular they are 

Danny: Cloistered by the studios as the girls say, keep their mystic. 

Tom: How stardom is sold, I can see that, reserve them for the screen to keep their uniqueness. We’ve become popular around here just knowing them. They seemed enthusiastic on our coffee truck idea.

Danny: It’s a good attraction for both sides, film and the youth to chill out at something new and identify with the two actresses, it’s like wearing their clothes, now it could be  possible to drink their coffee. 

Tom: I can see that, they got the actor from the Ocean series drinking coffee on TV, hangs out with Julia Roberts on screen

Danny: Patrick ………..? Yeah, him.

Tom: So, A coffee truck time machine with a tow hook on to attach a trailer so it can be filled with tables and chairs so a small cafe can be setup around the truck would be good.

Danny: There’s the climate here for alfresco and give Lottie, Tess and Jenny something to do, get them on their roller blades zooming up and down the beach front with coffees, they’d like doing that in short skirts and bikini bottoms 

Tom: I’d think you’d like them doing that in short skirts and bikini bottoms. 

Danny: Space Coffee, every hundredth cup sold get’s a kiss from CJ or BB, every thousandth gets you an autographed picture.

Tom: Total winner, those surfer lads will be drinking half a dozen cups each and there’s Annie to take a photograph of them being kissed. 

Danny: We’d be able to buy our own star ship after a season. 

Tom: A cruiser would do me.

Danny: They wanted donuts on board.

Tom: They had those onboard in the movie Paul, when the space visitor found them in the RV, amazing if space visitors turned out to be looking like that.

Danny: More amazing if they’re actually any space voyagers, our future most likely will be far more sophisticated with time bracelets, dial yourself a time dimension and shift into it, some future transient physics, applying your mind at the same time. 

Tom: People already refer to the existence of parallel dimensions, maybe scoffed at now b in granddad’s era mobile phones weren’t thought of as feasible as they were in big suitcases, now they’re on your wrist. 

Danny: Once time is fractionalised into zones we won’t be travelling so much, just crossing the street to one then back to another, finding out the more preferable ones to hang out in.

Tom: The commercial aspect could be phenomenal if the zones can be tweaked so enhancing your life 

Danny: That’s Mega bucks, for now Dimension Donuts, eat, think of time and dissolve yourself into another parallel existence as your thoughts merge.

Tom: Could be good, Donut Fliers where you really go through the hole in the middle.

Danny: We are all consist of a chemical makeup, not forgetting atoms and molecules and whatever else the scientists dream up.

Tom: There’s new sciences all the time coupled with new generations of computing which extend our vocabularies, 

Danny: In olden days hieroglyphics were in evidence in advanced cultures, where those derived from is anybodies guess, though historians and alike assume they’ve found links to rationalise them 

Tom: Oh yeah, all the multiple languages and cultures are mind blowing, individual cultures advanced without interference from others until they expanded so much it was necessary to further their areas and encroach on other cultures so force was needed.

Danny: With online and the internet we have a world culture so to spread out further is to find a new planet, with that in mind they’ll be others far more advanced than us doing the same. Currently though we have half a dozen very hot looking girls heading in our direction from the bar entrance.

Tom: Possibilities of an invasion already, in our home town these would be looked upon as aliens . Budding actresses I think.

Danny: I’m not sure they would need much else to be regarded as actresses; puckered lips, the hair flicked back over one shoulder, swirling skirts above the knee leaving something left for our imagination, ankle boots emphasising their calves on their legs, which are pronounced as they pound the sand with beach ball and swim on out on their boards for the surf.

Tom: The girls have got it all worked out down here to attract the Aussie lads, sure as hell we haven’t. It’ll be a big rounds of drinks for us, maybe we should duck and dive .

Danny: They’ll drink soda water and cranberry juices, it’s early and possibly they are like the girls in the north of England and get pissed too easily, so way too early for cocktails.

Tom: Appears they’ve pre-ordered as a waiter is flying towards us with a tray of drinks.

Danny: Texts are so useful, this place will take Phone Pay too. 

Girl One: Hi I’m Teresa, on my left is Dannie and Kylie of course, and right is Bella, Margot and Jessie, a generation of parents who grew up with Neighbours, totally adore your friends and I’ve daddy's card so we’re cool for a good time, a big party around at ours is a must if they feel so inclined and of course are stopping for long.

Dannie: Oh, a really big party, the works, would make our year not forgetting our parents, not so much happens down in Australia, bar droughts, forest fires, the Olympics were good, but we were a little young to get the full impetus of that event.

Bella: So how you are you finding us and the country.  Tom: The beaches are good and the CJ and BB like your surf.  Jessie: oh yes, all the fantastic hunks do the surf, not forgetting the beach ball, which we do of course, gives us a chance to show off, the boys are so damn good on the boards, not forgetting the wind surfing and the skiff sailing. 

Danny: Rugby and Cricket is as popular over here as it is in the UK. 

Teresa: Oh yes, daddy is always watching the internationals down at his club with his friends, we go and play and Tennis when it’s on we keep out of their way cause loads of beer gets drunk, when it’s not being drunk they’re throwing it over each other, which is an English thing I believe. 

Danny: Its started in Liverpool I believe, if you cannot drink anymore you can wear it.

Teresa: I understand, we get to drive them home then we have the car for the night, which is cool for daddy’s car is a grand affair, oh we’re out without cars tonight so we’re clubbing it and our daddies are picking us up under mum’s discretion of course, for if CJ and BB turn up our mums will be out running everybody about.

Tom: That we’re not sure about, we think they’re staying in 

Teresa: Oh well, here’s hoping, you want more beer lads, it’s on Dad’s tab.

Tom: That would be good, 

Danny: Thank you very much, unexpected, we’ve just checked out the new Star Wars film, that was awesome. 

Teresa: Good huh, if you want to check it out again we’re game, not many guys we know are into the stuff, sporty bunch, are here’s the beers.

Margot: I just adore the new girl, Daisy Ridley, ah here’s your beers

Tom: That was quick.

Teresa: Oh yes, I sent a text to the bar, they know what you’re drinking, so CJ and BB are into Coffee

Danny: They thought it a quick to broaden their horizons selling coffee in bars around the world after being closeted in studios for the last nine years, not had many experiences outside a film set. 

Teresa: Precious goods for a studio, got them both Oscars so that’s an achievement, the gold medal of films, and there’s not many if you compare it to sports which in turn are compared most things and people too over here you’ll find out, if not already. We frequent the night clubs,

Tom: Good, we’re not into sports, not so entertaining in the north of England out in the mud and cold kicking and throwing a ball around. 

Teresa: Absolutely, for us as I said we limit it to beach ball where we ogled of course, after that it’s dressing up, hair styles, presenting ourselves, keeping fit, dancing; the dancing we’re keen on and compete, our sport.

Kylie: We basically worship the girls who are travelling with you as we grew up and they’re our age, we followed all their activities in the magazines though some must have been contrived.

Danny: Possibly, we encountered them in England at Glastonbury, they were dressed as hippies so unrecognisable, later we chilled smoking some grass, which was evidently a new experience for them and they spilt the beans, revealed all, which we thought was grass bringing them on, making them grandiose.

Tom: Then they produced their passports, we were clueless but Jenny, Tess, and Lottie knew them from their films, 

Kylie: Friends for life, grass is good for breaking down barriers, revealing, so no shortage of girls.     

Tom: We all went to school together from five years old so no secrets between us and Lottie, Jenny and Tess. 

Dannie: We were the same, all went to school together, not sure what school was useful for apart from making good buddies. 

Danny: We prolonged ours with university, no concrete results but we had a good time and our parents were happy we did it. 

Tom: Our backpacking is good, stimulating our minds, filling us full of ideas.

Bella: I’ll get a word in here, for we’re all excited, something we entertained, backpacking around the world but the protests from our dads were awesome, the possibilities of losing us forever if somebody swept us off our feet in a far and distant land, for we’re not suited to the sporty types which dominant our dads lives here, so they all went out and bought us new 4x4’s, all customised and very smart   

Jessie: We got the message, maybe not fair but not fair to our dads perhaps, only daughters they’ve got, so we get along and party and have a good time, oh we have brothers all still at home of course, our mums spoil them rotten not to lose them, so a tough time for any girl who gets keen on them.

Teresa: Oh yeah, my other friends avoid my mum, even glancing looks at my brothers and they get looks as though they should burn in the pit of hell and damnation, forever hoping we get hooked up and produce grandchildren, not doubt my brothers would be in with a chance with the diversion. 

Tom: Maybe they could move out. 

Teresa: Then they would have to look after themselves, which they’ve never done, too comfortable and have a load more cash to spend living at home as well. 

Tom: Do you do anything. 

Teresa: We work at boutiques, do some catwalk when the fashion shows are in town. 

Jessie: Not a career, but gets us out and about, and not a living to rent and set up your own place, something though.

Danny: I suppose that maybe an incentive to hook up with a Mr Right. 

Jessie: No, there’s no pressure, our dads love having us at home as our mums and brothers do so it’s okay, we have big houses and gardens, how about you.

  Danny: Terraced houses at home, old too, Victorian era I think, so small, we say pokey.

  Dannie: So, no incentive to stay at home, your Hollywood friends have big houses I bet. 

Tom: You’ll have to ask them, they look grand in their pictures but they earn fortunes, give a lot to charities, but we don’t pry, so you’re best asking them about their houses.

Danny: They served in cafes for free in five different cities around the world and made a thousand dollars a day in tips, a different world from ours, but they’re good fun and we’re all comfortable together.

Tom: That’s good, I think maybe if they were from the UK that would not be so.

Teresa: Oh, you mean snobbery, the class thing, we’re better than you and so on, we get that here unfortunately, our origins are the same as yours and there’s still the indigenous population here of course whereas in the US they shot many as portrayed by the cowboy western movies our dad watch, but everybody seems to shoot each other over in the US. I’d stick to class system rather than popping each other off. 

Danny: You could have point, people have grudges if they're not equal so they sort it out in their own minds, not the one with any easy access to arms with people who valour is all important to.  Tom: It’s the land of success, not the place to be rotting on the pile of losers, yeah class and snobbery is easier to come to terms with and seems to be a whole lot more acceptable. 

Bella: Uh huh, we just socialise, as do our mums, and we all keep in our circles, works out fine. Not sure about losers or winners, too much pressure and people break down as in the States where there appears to be too much emphasis on success, so people naturally crack up. 

Dannie: The complexity of getting life as you want it, marketing doesn’t help, tempting people beyond their means but there’s so much money in doing that, so if what’s bad for the pocket is bad for the mind as it creates stress as they found that smoking was bad for your health, it should be restricted.

Teresa: Maybe smoking thing was to divert people attentions away from the real problems of stress cause by over spending and living the American dream, giving easy credit is short term  satisfaction creating stress in the longterm which kills many.

Tom: They are legalising pot in many US states now so people can chill, only thing with that is you get the munchies so tend to over eat.

Danny: Put pot in your burgers and triple your sales, come to yummy land and be fat and stoned.  Jessie: Makes us girls very horny grass, so most likely the birth rate will go up too, so you really get fat at yummy land, we keep well away from grass.

Teresa: Glad our mums don’t know this, we would have been given grass burgers since we were twenty-one or before to get them some grandchildren.

Danny: They’re that keen on grandchildren.

Bella: Oh yes, on being a mum again, we’re all grown up so have another blast at it with ours.  Tom: The exact opposite of birth control, put a warning on the pot sold, beware increases the likelihood of sex so ensure to take the pill or use preventatives 

Jessie: Alcohol also reduces your inhibitions which makes you more willing to indulge in sex, It’s different from pot which last for hours, alcohol has phases, gotta catch the right phase.

Danny: I expect you’re more likely to conceive as well if you’ve smoked grass.

Bella: That would be difficult to do a survey on for not many would admit to smoking pot before hand, but I would say it’s an easy yes that you are, our hormones seem to love it as much as our brain. 

Danny: They're both biologically chemical so no doubt. How about Coffee?

Teresa: For sex, zero, but it’s a stimulant, maybe better for the male, we read that the French and Italian men drink loads and there as horny as hell, commence the day with an Expresso and a Pastis, so maybe stop off at the mistress on the way to work to really start the day off.

Tom: We were thinking of doing a coffee bar on the beach with BB and CJ 

Kylie: That could be very amusing with the men in there swimming shorts and lots of girls around  Danny: There’s decaf.  Bella: Indeed, that would spoil the fun, so how you’re going to get a bar on the beach.

Tom: A truck, a real fancy one.

Teresa: That could work, need big fat tyres on it so it doesn’t get stuck, four wheel drive would be the best. It would popular with BB and CJ serving the coffee on the Bondi, surfing would become secondary, it would pick up your coffee as opposed to pick up your board at the Bondi.  Dannie: Good for the beach ball as well. 

Jessie: Yeah there’s the cricket, the rugby, and the sailing, great for a fancy truck with Hollywood inside doing coffee at those events, just drive it onto the pitch for the cricket save them walking off, so whose idea, yours or your friends. 

Tom: Ours, they suggested adding Donuts, healthier ones.

Teresa: Get some of their own US attached to it, could be good, around this city would be good for the cafes are all in the wrong places, especially the shopping centres, you want a drink after leaving the place or going in, not inside where you can’t relax with a million distractions about you.    Bella: I think there would be little problem with permits, sort of things our dads would like especially in the rush hour stuck in a queue for there would be a selection of cold coffees, just pass them through the window as they’re crawling past.

Tom: We’ve got a theme.

Kylie: Gonna be connected to a space ship for you’ve just seen the latest Star Wars, a space coffee ship. 

Tom: It was kinda of in the background, it was before we went.

Kylie: Spiked your subconscious off, were the same except it shoes not space ships, there always in our mind, clueless to why.

Tom: Maybe cause there in pairs, so you need two, gloves are little boring.  Kylie: Could be, attracts men to look at our legs as the heels curve everything more, then the eyes travel up and our hair finishes it all off. 

Bella: Absolutely, you always look up, rarely down, to see what’s at the top, it’s natural.  Teresa: Yep, you solved a mystery for me, so trucks, a big boy thing and it would be need to be glamorous or different to get your friends in it pushing coffee. 

Tom: A truck with brushed stainless steel panels and transfers of them attached to the panels. The actual name The Time Truck Stop Off, on the theme of the DeLorean which was constructed in stainless steel and used for Back To the Future. 

Bella: Uh huh, futuristic and fire proof for they make ovens out of stainless steel, shiny so easily be seen glinting in the sun.

Danny: Good names for coffee

Teresa: Oh, you’ve got the whole universe for those

Tom: A tow hook to attach a trailer to carry around tables and chairs.

Bella: Not on the beach, you’ll get stuck for sure with a trailer in tow, but good for other places, that’ll keep you busy, one of those could be good for some selective beach wear merchandise with our beach ball games, the real classy stuff to show off in, give people the impulse buy before and after the games. After a ride home, TV, sleep, next morning your slate is wiped clean fro a new day.

Dannie: The marketing is askew, so much is missed, they had a load of Star Wars merchandise for sale at the cinema? 

Tom: No, they didn’t, not that we looked. 

Dannie: Oh, you would have fallen over it if there was, the millions these film companies are missing out in sales. I expect you’d bought a poster and T-shirt, well maybe if you’d live here, certainly a sun hat. 

Tom: You know sales?

Dannie: We do fashion shows, loads of impulse buying, doesn't that look fabulous I must have it and off the racks the outfits go. That’s the ready to wear stuff, couture is different. So not even a special edition program of the film.

Tom: No, it’ll all be online.

Bella: Yeah well, they’ve missed the impulse buy and nothing to brag about to your mates when you get home, seeing Star Wars In Sydney, we’ll take a picture of you in front of the cinema when we go past later and email it to you. 

Teresa: Have you guys eaten, we never bother with eating out living at home.

Tom: We were going back in the cinema to watch another flick and grab something in there.  Teresa: You’re not doing that now as you’ve got us here so they do most things here, steaks are good and it’s on me, well dad.

Tom: Sounds good  Danny: Yes, thanks.

Teresa: Good, easy done or crucified? 

Tom: Easy  Danny: Even if they are good.  Teresa: Bloody good, pardon the expression.

Danny: No, an apt expression, 

Chapter 4 Back at CJ and BB’s Rental 

Annie: These steaks are good

Jenny: Yes, cheers for those, very welcome not often on our diet, lovely steaks, I hope the film for the boys was worth it for missing these.

Tess: I don’t think they’ve missed on star war movies in recent years, they’ve been going a long time, around forty years. 

CJ: Oh yeah, get caught up in that series that it’s for life more or less if you’re in our game. I’ve been thinking of the boys, The Time Truck Stop Off, is it feasible in people’s minds for such a large thing to travel around in time, or time hop into different dimensions, it has happened to people and one to my knowledge with vehicles, but not intentionally so maybe have several of them.

BB: As opposed to a time machine the people shift in dimensions and the material items stay the same but I think everything slipped with that guy who most have heard about, then slipped back again, the actual proof was good when the photographs were produced of the two