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The narrator remarks that days and nights run together since he works long shifts and then sleeps at the nurse’s station. Georgie’s pills keep him awake but mentally detached. After their shifts, the narrator and Georgie lie down in the bed of Georgie’s pickup truck. Georgie says he wants to go to church. The narrator says he wants to go to the county fair.
The two drive around, enjoying the clear, peaceful day. They arrive at the fair, and the narrator sees a “champion of the drug LSD,” likely American psychologist Timothy Leary, being interviewed for television. The narrator believes that he has taken as much LSD as the drug’s champion has.
After the fair, the narrator and Georgie drive around, unable to find the road back into town. Georgie complains about the fair not having rides, but the narrator assures him that there were. Their truck hits a jackrabbit, and Georgie insists on going back for it. Planning to eat the rabbit, he guts it with Weber’s hunting knife, saying he should have been a doctor. The rabbit is pregnant, and Georgie manages to extract the unborn babies without killing them. Thrilled because they “killed the mother and saved the children,” he dumps the bunnies into the narrator’s lap.
They drive dangerously fast down country roads, lost, and the two men discuss how to keep the bunnies alive. The sun begins to set, and Georgie drifts to a stop on the shoulder. He says they cannot continue because his truck has no headlights. A cold front blows in, and the narrator remarks that summer is over. They leave the truck and begin to wander aimlessly in the forest as snow begins to fall. They lose sight of the truck and become lost in the woods.
Eventually, the two men discover what the narrator believes to be a military graveyard with rows of grave markers for fallen soldiers. The sky seems to open, and the narrator sees angels descending. He watches in awe and fear, but Georgie breaks the miraculous scene by pointing out that they are at a drive-in movie lot, not a graveyard. The angels are actors projected on the screen. Georgie expresses astonishment that the theater is showing the movie in a blizzard. They enter the theater lot and see that it is deserted. Everyone is gone, and soon, the projection is cut.
The narrator and Georgie leave the drive-in and find the truck. Georgie still insists they cannot go anywhere since it has no headlights. The narrator suspects that they are hundreds of miles from the city, but Georgie knows they are close. He says they can drive back later, when they will be “invisible.”
While they wait, they listen to the sound of the interstate and Georgie says they need to feed the bunnies. The narrator, however, reports that all eight are dead. He forgot about them and sat on them. Georgie asks the narrator if he ruins everything he touches. The narrator says that’s why his nickname is Fuckhead. Georgie remarks that the nickname will stick with him for life, to which the narrator agrees.
