[00:04.28]Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose,
[00:15.92]he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere.
[00:15.75]And it began to snow.
[00:18.61]And the bus stopped at a little cafe in the hills and the passengers entered.
[00:23.55]And he sat at the counter with the others, and he ordered, the food arrived.
[00:28.89]And the meal was particularly good.
[00:32.34]And the coffee.
[00:35.44]The waitress was unlike the women he had known.
[00:38.72]She was unaffected, and there was a natural humor which came from her.
[00:44.63]And the fry cook said crazy things.
[00:47.16]And the dishwasher in back laughed a good clean pleasant laugh.
[00:52.37]And the young man watched the snow through the window.
[00:56.66]And he wanted to stay in that cafe forever.
[01:00.79]The curious feeling swam through him that everything was beautiful there.
[01:06.62]And it would always stay beautiful there.
[01:10.91]And then the bus driver told the passengers that it was time to board.
[01:15.92]And the young man thought: "I'll just stay here, I'll just stay here."
[01:24.20]And then he rose and he followed the others into the bus.
[01:28.26]He found his seat and looked at the cafe through the window.
[01:32.63]And then the bus moved off, down a curve, downward, out of the hills.
[01:38.14]And the young man looked straight forward.
[01:41.18]And he heard the other passengers speaking of other things,
[01:44.22]or they were reading or trying to sleep.
[01:48.28]And they hadn't noticed the magic.
[01:52.19]And the young man put his head to one side,
[01:54.24]closed his eyes, and pretended to sleep.
[01:57.68]There was nothing else to do,
[02:00.28]just to listen to the sound of the engine,
[02:03.10]and the sound of the tires
[02:05.60]in the snow