"How's your neck this morning?" asked Kriss, as Ross came in the front door.
"Huh?" Ross looked puzzled, "why would anything be wrong with my neck?"
"Oh J-- just called to tell me about what I missed last night," Kriss motioned to the two cardboard boxes tucked in the corner, "he didn't want me to be left out."
"Great," muttered Ross as he walked over to the boxes and opened the top one, "what did he tell you?"
"Oh, just that your Stay-cation idea has hit a snag," answered Kriss cheerfully.
"Snag?" Ross asked without looking directly at Kriss.
"Well, a couple of snags," answered Kriss, smiling slightly, "the first one is Bonnie making you sleep on the couch, and the second is the reason all the tee-shirts and things were so cheap."
"For starters," Ross answered as he lifted a pile of tee-shirts out of the first box, "they weren't cheap, and that was the first snag. And secondly ..." Ross feel silent as he held up a tee-shirt for Kriss to see.
The tee-shirt had a bold blue, red and white flag on the front, a flag Kriss recognized as Cuba's. She was about to speak when Anna came out of the kitchen.
"Cuba isn't spelled with two 'U's' Ross!" she stated in a very matter of fact way.
"I know," answered Ross, his shoulders sagging slightly, "and Rio isn't spelled with an 'e' and two 'o's either ..."
"Oh-oh," whispered Kriss, "talk about a major snag ..."
"I don't think there's a 'q' anywhere in Montego Bay either?" said Anna lifting a tee-shirt from the box ...
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