it was one of our private jokes from back in the starving college days . it stopped and rose up on two hind legs . youd have every bandit in the inner east after you if people knew you were carrying something like this . `` but i was under the impression that you had forgotten all about that . '' a large shadow fell across the table . when i got home that night , the phone was ringing . and you can plant an apple tree . ' i grabbed it and hopped in behind the wheel . 