Brett G. Rudder
March 10, 2009
AP British Lit
As we were driving down the highway, Adam noticed a bit of a tire on the side of the road. Since we had seen this phenomenon so many times before, we merely commented on it in passing fashion, and Adam continued to drive. However, thirty feet later, we passed the whole tire—and what’s more, a full-sized car was not far from it, and a poor chap was trying to jack up his car so that he could put the spare on. Funny thing about jacking up cars is this; you always want to be sure that the vehicle is in park, and also that you have sufficient blocks in front of the front wheels to have extra precaution against the car rolling. Although Adam was inclined to disagree, you never want a car rolling free, easy, and driverless down the shoulder of a highway. This happened to me once, as a matter of fact—I had been sure I put the car in park, but my car argued irrationally that it indeed was in neutral, and decided to prove so. I got out my jack and jacked that car up, having been in too much of a hurry to change the tire (it was raining) to bother putting blocks on the front wheels. Well, we were on a downhill slope, facing downhill, and I jacked that car right up as a fast as I good, and that darn car began to roll down the shoulder fast as he could. Naturally, I did the first thing that came to mind, a requirement when your car starts rolling away from you; I swore the best swear I ever swore to this day, and then I kicked the jack. Immediately following, I began to chase the car down the shoulder. Well, this fellow on the side of the road was still in the process of jacking his car up, and I thought it happened rather fast—but in a matter of minutes (me and Adam had pulled over behind him to get out and help), he had jumped in the air, and the wind then carried a bout of language so horrible my mother would have spit on the ground. After that vocal symphony, sure enough, Adam commented that the car had begun to roll…We jumped out of our car and began to run towards the next author of Webster’s Dictionary.
