** 5.  Noodle Punk **

From the entrance to the Callahan Bridge, head straight north and just 
before the street comes to an end, look to your left and you will see the
Noodle Punk restaurant and the bright red Noodle Punk Faggio sitting out
front.  Climb on the Faggio to start the mission.  Your job here is simply 
to deliver noodles to odd little people that just seem to be standing on the
sidewalks around town wanting noodles.  The concept is simple, you drive to 
the odd little person, use R2 or L2 to look towards them and throw noodles 
at them with the circle button.  You have 4 minutes and 20 seconds to do 
this and get back to the restaurant.  Sounds pretty easy doesn't it?  Well,
of course it isn't!  It starts off pretty easy, for each level of this 
mission, you are given one more customer.  Therefore you have 1 customer in
level one, 2 customers in level 2, 3 customers in level 3 and so on.  You
must complete level 10 to finish this mission.  By the way, you can only 
carry 6 boxes of noodles at a time, so above level 6, you will be returning
to the restaurant to refill.  Just to keep things interesting, you will get
4 minutes and 20 seconds for every level, whether you are delivering 1 box
or 10.  You will never get any more time than that, so in the later levels
this is going to get tight.  (You want to know PISSED, the first time I did
this mission I got all the way to level 10, delivered the last box of 
noodles and headed back to the restaurant and ran out of time before I got
there . . . and I could SEE the damn yellow marker in front of me!)  The 
best strategy to get through this once you get in the later levels is to
go to your start menu map as soon as your customers appear and plan the most
efficient route possible.  Generally what this will entail is delivering 
to the customers furthest north first as they are going to be the furthest
away and then the ones to the south last.  Trying to get customers all in
such a way that they are on a direct path works in your best interest as 
well.  Watch your noodle count so you don't run out, don't miss hitting the 
customer with the delivery although they aren't real particular about 
picking their stuff up off the ground either, and for cryin' out loud try 
not to fall off of this whining piece of crap.  Level 8 is going to be 
tight, level 9 is going to be DAMN tight and level 10 is going to be white
knuckle until you pull back into the restaurant.  Complete this mission and
Noodle Punk will now pay you protection money just like the car dealership
here in Portland and the bike shop in Staunton.  Your health bar will also
be 25% longer from now on, so thats a bonus for you as well.