Well, it finally happened - Tank went off the deep-end! We knew it had to happen eventually, but I just never expected it to be so...colorful...when it happened.
I'm not sure whether I should scream or ROTFL! at this.
Trying to prove that you're still you? I had a feeling that this is what you were going to do from the title, but it still had me laughing/groaning at the end.
Wendy - and probably a lot of non-US readers - the Donner Party were a wagon train load of settlers in the Old West who took the wrong cutoff and ended up stranded in the wilds of nowhere, cut off and snowbound. Many starved to death and the rest had to resort to cannabilism to survive until the thaw and they were rescued. Their story has fascinated ever since, in much the same way as the story of the Titanic does, and I guess for much the same reasons, and some of the diaries, accounts of their ordeal by survivors can be very poignant.
Oh my. Well, this is certainly more like what we expect from a Tank story. There was a Wham. Despite having read the title, the ending caught me clueless, although I had known that Jimmy wasn't going to survive this - that was a given.
But something that I don't remember reading: Lois has been missing for almost a month, trapped in a tiny cabin in the frozen wilderness. Somehow, didn't something happen that would cause her to have to cut some of her hair off?
Glad to see you're better Tank, I was a bit worried about you for a while there.
I'd never heard of the Donner Party either... I thought the title was refering to Doner Kebabs, and, well, given the reputations of some of our local kebab shops, I wasn't too surprised by the ending...