Mark Man, it’s hot.

Jake It’s summer.

Mark But it’s hot.

Jake That happens in the summer.

Mark We need to do something.


Jake But what? I thought it was too hot to move. Isn’t that what you were saying earlier?

Mark It is. We need a ride.

Jake Uhm? The train is…

Mark No, a ride that fits the summer. We need a boat.

Jake A boat?

Mark We need a boat.

Jake Where are we going to get a boat?

Mark I had an idea about that.

Happy Jake Oh no.

Happy Mark Oh yes.

Jake Fine, tell me.

Mark Well, what if we collected bottles, and plastic bags?

Jake Like a homeless person?

Happy Mark Exactly like a homeless person!

Jake Uhm, all right. Then, I mean, we lash it all together? Forming some sort of garbage raft?

Mark I prefer to think of it as a Hoboat.

Happy Jake A what?

Happy Mark Hoboat! A boat that hobos might construct. Hoboat!

Happy Jake Hoboat!

Happy Mark Yes. And it shall be cheap and yet let us sit upon the water and bask in a breeze.

Jake Kinda sounds like something that would fall apart though.

Happy Mark Do you doubt the raw power of the Hoboat?

Jake I do, until I think of the name, and then I truly believe all things are possible.

Happy Mark Exactly! With the Hoboat everything is possible, including a much cooler summer, on the East River, with some beers.

Happy Jake Man, let’s start building the Hoboat right now!

Happy Mark I bet Sven will help.

Jake Oh he so will! Yeah! This will be awesome.

Mark Yeah it will. Hoboat!