" Want a ride?" ...
One look at the car, & I decided that walking didn't sound so bad, after all.
...
"Half the people around here shouldn't even be driving."
She said this will no irony whatsoever, despite the fact that her car's black cloth top kept rising and lowering like some kind of strange bird trying to achieve flight. The driver, a young ginger haired guy, took a stab at making it stop, & turned the wipers on instead.
"I'm good," I assured her.
...
Ronnie panicked & veered sharply to the right, missing the race car but clipping a VW Bug that had stalled out in the middle of the air. It's hood was jacked up, and its owner's butt was hanging over the side. Or, at least, it was until the impact caused the Bug to go spinning in one direction & flung the owner in the other.
...."uh-oh" .... Ronnie glanced at me. "Get in if you're getting!"
I'd have refused, considering his grasp on the fundamentals of the road -- or in this case, the air. But traffic was piling up around the accident, pushing more people out of the safe zone. And I was beginning to doubt that most of them even knew how to drive on land. "
― Karen Chance , Death's Mistress (Dorina Basarab, #2)
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One look at the car, & I decided that walking didn't sound so bad, after all.
...
"Half the people around here shouldn't even be driving."
She said this will no irony whatsoever, despite the fact that her car's black cloth top kept rising and lowering like some kind of strange bird trying to achieve flight. The driver, a young ginger haired guy, took a stab at making it stop, & turned the wipers on instead.
"I'm good," I assured her.
...
Ronnie panicked & veered sharply to the right, missing the race car but clipping a VW Bug that had stalled out in the middle of the air. It's hood was jacked up, and its owner's butt was hanging over the side. Or, at least, it was until the impact caused the Bug to go spinning in one direction & flung the owner in the other.
...."uh-oh" .... Ronnie glanced at me. "Get in if you're getting!"
I'd have refused, considering his grasp on the fundamentals of the road -- or in this case, the air. But traffic was piling up around the accident, pushing more people out of the safe zone. And I was beginning to doubt that most of them even knew how to drive on land." style="width:100%;margin:20px 0;"/>