The narrator recounts tales about Pete and cars, and Pete and dogs, each more preposterous or sad or illuminating than the last, before finally reflecting on the importance of recounting preposterous, sad, and illuminating stories.
This is mostly a voice-driven story – it sounds like the kind of thing you’d hear at a dive bar a few beers into the night, told by a garrulous raconteur who can’t keep his stories straight but is still a joy to hear, if not for the plot than for the cadence.