car trouble

It was just a casual day after school.  Nice and sunny, when I come out to the sophomore parking lot to find my car boxed in.  Not kidding there were maybe 2 inches on both sides of my car of room to back out.  So of course I knew it had to be my dumb friends, so I call Grant Bean and he comes out with Nate Oldroyd and they just laugh at me. 

I finally convince him and Nate to move their cars and that we were going to race to Swig.  Behind the school there are HUGE speed bumps that you have to go over super slow or else you will bottom out.  So I’m neck and neck with Grant in our race and the speed bump is swiftly approaching so I slam on my breaks, but Grant, being as crazy as he is, speeds up even more in his BMW, hits the speed bump, and flies all 4 wheels of the car 4 feet in the air.  I don’t know how they survived the landing but there didn’t seem to be any damage so we just went to Swig.

On our way there, Grant was driving in front of me so him and Nate were throwing every single piece of trash possible as well as lighting fireworks and throwing them out their sunroof trying to hit my car.  I was swerving to avoid all this crap being thrown at my car and didn’t really think much of it. 

We finally get to Swig, Grant tells me that his power steering is not working anymore so he’s having a really hard time turning the wheel and I’m just thinking “hmmm I wonder how that could have happened…. weird” And then he spills his entire soda all over the place so we try and clean it up with their mop but it’s just so awkward and such a mess that eventually we just leave and head back home.

Well when I got home I was causally doing my homework when someone knocks on the door.  My mom gets the door and yells at me to come to the door.  I show up and there is a cop standing on my front porch.  He tells me that someone called and reported me for reckless driving and he tracked my car from my license plate to find my house.  So there I am, just standing there with my mom giving me the stink eye, and I don’t want to rat out my friends for being the idiots throwing crap at my car so I just apologized a bunch of times hoping not to get a fine or in trouble.  He ended up being super chill and just giving me a long lecture.

Grant and Nate totally screwed me over and I covered for them, but Grant suffered more than I did.  His oil tank ended up being cracked and he had so much damage to his car that it was in the shop for weeks.  I guess you could say I got the lucky end of the deal.