AfterNight
Moon
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2016
"Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me!"
It wasn't so much that Danny's car had broken down. It was a twelve-year-old Toyota his mom had given him when she'd bought her new one; he expected it to break down from time to time. But when he'd just spent most of his disposable income on fixing it up precisely so he could rely on it to get him and his stuff to college, it felt less like bad luck and more like some kind of deliberate plot on the universe's part to keep him from ever actually getting his damned diploma!
And the snow didn't help. So much for weather reports and 'cold and clear.' It was cold, that much was true enough, but a storm had practically come up out of nowhere. Truthfully he would probably have had to pull over before much longer even if his engine hadn't stalled, but he'd been hoping to find a cheap motel or something before that.
Oh well. Nothing for it now; he'd have to hike back to the rest area he'd passed a few miles back and hope they'd take some pity on a bedraggled traveller. He hauled his backpack out of the trunk and extracted two sweaters, which he pulled on underneath his winter coat, leaving him almost feeling warm despite the chill, and traded his sneakers for a pair of battered old hiking boots that were the closest thing he had to snowboots, along with a few pairs of extra socks. Then he sealed up the backpack and tightened the straps... no sense in leaving it here; who knew how long it would take before his car was functional again? He left his mobile number on a piece of paper on the dash, on the off chance that whoever found the car once the snow melted decided to call rather than just take it apart for parts, and trudged off into the snow.
One nice thing about highways, at least: he didn't have to pay much attention to where he was going. It wasn't like he was going to lose the trail. At least, that's what he thought! But before too long the ground dropped out under him and he was falling into a hole that seemed to go on way too long...
It wasn't so much that Danny's car had broken down. It was a twelve-year-old Toyota his mom had given him when she'd bought her new one; he expected it to break down from time to time. But when he'd just spent most of his disposable income on fixing it up precisely so he could rely on it to get him and his stuff to college, it felt less like bad luck and more like some kind of deliberate plot on the universe's part to keep him from ever actually getting his damned diploma!
And the snow didn't help. So much for weather reports and 'cold and clear.' It was cold, that much was true enough, but a storm had practically come up out of nowhere. Truthfully he would probably have had to pull over before much longer even if his engine hadn't stalled, but he'd been hoping to find a cheap motel or something before that.
Oh well. Nothing for it now; he'd have to hike back to the rest area he'd passed a few miles back and hope they'd take some pity on a bedraggled traveller. He hauled his backpack out of the trunk and extracted two sweaters, which he pulled on underneath his winter coat, leaving him almost feeling warm despite the chill, and traded his sneakers for a pair of battered old hiking boots that were the closest thing he had to snowboots, along with a few pairs of extra socks. Then he sealed up the backpack and tightened the straps... no sense in leaving it here; who knew how long it would take before his car was functional again? He left his mobile number on a piece of paper on the dash, on the off chance that whoever found the car once the snow melted decided to call rather than just take it apart for parts, and trudged off into the snow.
One nice thing about highways, at least: he didn't have to pay much attention to where he was going. It wasn't like he was going to lose the trail. At least, that's what he thought! But before too long the ground dropped out under him and he was falling into a hole that seemed to go on way too long...