Henry of Atlantic City - Tapa dura

Henry decided to run away. He told Sister Agnes Mary he had to go to the bathroom. There was a window there and he opened the window and climbed out. When he was outside he ran to the bus stop. He had lunch money to buy a ticket and he got on the first bus that came. He was alone on the open road. There were bad people on the highways - Tartars, Bulgarians, Goths, Huns, Cappadocians. People from all the corners of the Empire. He didn't know where to go or what to do when he got there.
After a while he got off the bus and looked around. He was on a wide road - probably in Phrygia someplace. There was a Seven-Eleven and a McDonald's. Their signs stood high up on narrow metal columns. Henry was glad to see them because they were familiar and there was comfort in signs that were firmly established.