Narrative Essay For The Taxi

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“Come on Luke, we are going to be late for the Taxi,” I said. I was putting on the last finishing touches of my make up on when the phone rang. Leo the Taxi Driver was calling letting us know he was waiting in the front lobby for us. “Do you think this is a good idea Miranda?” I mean we don’t even know this Taxi driver Leo. This is a foreign country,” Luke said concerning. Leo had been driving us around for the past four days. I felt like he was a longtime friend. Another couple that we had talked to has had Leo for a driver there the last three times they were on vacation. They call him every year they are down there. “What are you so worried about? We are going to be fine; they know the best beach spots in Acapulco.” Let’s just have fun …show more content…

Luke was wearing a gray polo shirt with khaki shorts and flip flops. There was Leo waiting for us. Leo was a big Spanish man trying to make a living in Mexico for his family of five. “Are you ready for your tour of Acapulco Mexico?” He asked us both. “I am” with excitement I yelled and Luke nodded his head. “One Hundred American Dollars to drive us around for the day right Leo?” He shook his head and agreed with the price. Luke and I had been waiting for this trip for months. We had saved a lot of money and wanted to this trip to be memorable. We got into the car and off, we went up the hill to watch some cliff diving. The taxi wasn’t very clean with pop bottles, gun wrappers and a lot of papers all over the dashboard. As we were driving up the hill, I had a funny feeling in my stomach like I should be second guessing our decision if we should do this. But, then I would have to tell Luke he was right and that is one thing I did not want to …show more content…

There were houses with no roofs on them. Bed sheets were hanging off the cut out part of the window. It was all dirt floors, as far as we could tell from looking in the door way that had long beads that looked like it was the front door to the house. Chickens, goats and dogs were running all around the dirt path which was the road. I thinking in my head, what have I gotten Luke and myself into? “Where are we?” I asked Leo and Alberto. “We are at Alberto’s house. This is where he lives.” My heart was beating so fast. It looked like this house should be abandon from anyone. My hands got really sweaty and my nerves started to kick in. My stomach started to turn like I had eaten bad chicken the night before. “We will be ok,” I kept telling myself over and over again. Luke had his head down looking like he was praying God to save us. Leo looked back at us and smiled. “Do you want to go inside and see his house?” Luke replied “No, I think we are fine. We should get going.” Leo looked at Luke with a puzzled look on his face and turned back around. Luke turned his head at me and shook his head. I put my head down and had a tear stream down my left cheek. I never realized what could have happen to Luke and I and how much danger we could have been

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