there was the man dressed only in tighty-whity undershorts and a polo shirt who seemed to be saluting repeatedly ; the heavyset woman whose lower lip was split and hung in two beefy flaps , revealing all of her lower teeth ; the tall teenage boy in blue jeans shorts who walked up the center of salem street carrying what looked like a blood-caked tire-iron in one hand ; an indian or pakistani gentleman who passed tom 's house wriggling his jaw from side to side and simultaneously chattering his teeth ; a boy - dear god , a boy johnny 's age - who walked with absolutely no sign of pain although one arm was flapping below the knob of his dislocated shoulder ; a pretty young woman in a short skirt and a shell top who appeared to be eating from the red stomach of a crow .