The Bird- part 2

The Bird was a gas guzzling, bouncing pile of junk good car. After all, aren't all our first cars good cars? The memories...

In my 11th grade year I tended to...miss a lot of classes due to- fine. I skipped non stop. We were 6 weeks into 2nd quarter before my friend Kari and my teacher realized we were supposed to have study hall. Do you blame us? Our study hall was scheduled right after lunch. Kari and I figured they just meant for us to have a longer lunch period.

One day, we decided to take The Bird back to my friend Kari's house to hang out for the day. Only problem was that Kari lived right next door to me, so if we parked it in her driveway, we might get noticed. (You think?!)

We came up with a great plan to park The Bird on a dirt road about a 1/2 mile from our houses and walk to her house. Ingenious, right?

Again, genius. It worked great. We hung out, we watched TV, ate and relaxed. We had to get back for our health class that afternoon, so we got ready to head out.

Did I mention it was winter?

And I parked on the side of the road? Like halfway in the ditch? In the snow?

We were stuck. Totally stuck.

We totally panicked calmly and rationally thought through our problem. Our only option was to call her sister's husband who had a truck and beg for him to come get us out.

Much bribery and begging later he agreed. Only after promising to tell our parents. (Side note: Hello!? Wasn't he ever young and stupid? Way to sell us out.)

He arrived and called us a bunch of not-so-nice names, including idiots. (I'm not even going to go into what he is...)

So, being new drivers, Kari and I had not had a lot of experience being pulled out of ditches. He puts me in the drivers seat and tells me to hold onto the wheel and...something. I don't remember. I just wanted to get out before someone saw us.

He pulls, we fly.

The Bird flew across the road sideways and landed in the ditch on the other side of the road.

Sweet.

{Insert more name calling about how we were supposed to have done something with the wheel here.}

After teaching us the basics, he got us out. He did mention that the whole "fly across the road into the other ditch" thing may have knocked my car out of alignment.

Not that The Bird would've noticed.

Oh, and we missed Health.