Day Ninteen~Write a Story Based on a Real Event from Your Life.

The Sky was over cast and the dry ground was brown and dusty. The Journey 24/7 group was at the Moss's house, which had quite a bit of land.  We were all outside and had picked out a random slip of paper with a pick of several different vehicles on them from Mr. Moss's hat. I got the '64 Subaru.

I got into the car when my turn came, may hands only slightly sweaty. It wasn't just the fact that this was the first time I would be driving a real vehicles , I had a fear of driving. It was one of the activities for the Journey Spring Break party. Everyone picked a random vehicles  and got to drive it through an obstacle course. Some of the vehicles were a tractor, four wheeler, and truck, and a '64 Subaru. I got the Subaru which stalled easily and made that BANG noise every once in a while.

Did I mention I have a fear of driving?

I tapped the driving wheel as Mr. Moss explained again how to work the clutch. He gave me one final thumbs up. Take a deep breath, I lifted my foot off the clutch and onto the gas.

For never having driven before, I started off with smoothly, better than anyone else yet actually. Immediately I began to relax. I can do this, I kept saying to myself. Besides, the fact that I couldn't see what seemed like the first eight feet in front of me, it was easier than I had thought it would be.....

Suddenly I passed the first stake that marked the slalom. Only problem was that it was on my Right, and it would have been on my left. I yanked at he wheel, flying to the right. Too far, too far. I jerked at the wheel again. It suddenly seemed to be twisting right and left without my telling it to. Next thing I know, I was headed straight for one of the metal stakes. Mr. Moss wildly waved his hands because for some reason he was standing directly behind the metal stake. There was no time nor room to dodge. I frantically tried to remember how to stop. I lifted my foot off the gas and pressed down into the clutch and brake simultaneously, stopping with a  jerk, a split second after I had ran over the metal stake.

I started the car back up again, and managed to finish the course with no further harm to myself, the car, or any person/object around me.