"The alcohol is helping, but the costume isn’t." Remus had scrambled for something to wear at the last minute, so he was stuck as a cowboy. Oddly, he had had all of the components for a cowboy costume already: a western shirt, boots, and a cowboy hat. The only thing he didn’t have was a pair of blue jeans. Marlene had laughed at his predicament when he asked her to run to the vintage store down the road from his shop to pick him up a pair in light denim. What she returned with were far too tight. He suspected that she intentionally bought a smaller size, but he couldn’t prove anything. 