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Overcoming obstacles in life essay
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Overcoming obstacles in life essay
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The car waits outside along the driveway its engine purring and windows rolled up and horn hacking away. “All right, we’re coming you don’t have to wake the bloody neighborhood,” yelled out Wendy leading the way towards the red tinted window car covered in dents and muck. “Stupid, idiot,” braked Wendy even more perplexed as she glances up and down the drive takes a beeline towards Megan. “Did it ever occur to you to book this trip at night and not during the busiest time of the day,” express Wendy. Megan rolls her eyes, “It’s what I could squeeze out at the last minute,” she blurted back a little bit annoyed. “Then you are losing your touch little grass upper,” responded Wendy who for the first time showed some inkling of a smile. She took …show more content…
Taking the lead again, Wendy loaded our bags into the car trunk. Inside the car is even worse than the outside between the empty bottles of hardcore liquor, food kind and other wraps scattered all around, there is the potent reek of marijuana seemed to latch itself onto anyone or thing in its path. Behind the wheel is a breaded man with untamed deadlocks hair and extremely yellow teeth. His wide bright eyes kept popping up in the rear view mirror and looking around the drive …show more content…
“Slow your roll,” yelled Wendy at the driver holding on to the handle of the car door only to have it break off in her hand. She tosses it on the floor and instead grip the passenger front seat. The driver picks up speed even more when the car hit a pothole sending the hubcap spinning through the air and landing in the center of the road. “This place is a bad omen,” he said back to Wendy as he took a wide turn almost tipping the already wavering car over. “You are worried about the wrong thing friend,” express Wendy with a dark look in her eyes. Suddenly the driver took one look at Wendy through his rear view window and slowed the car down. “Less conspicuous shall we,” Wendy said winding down the window of the car and inhaling the fresh air that immerse inside the car. “Now that’s better,” she express reaching for a pack of gum and offering a stick to each of us. “Let’s just relax and take in the fresh air shall we.” While Megan understand and completely trust Wendy I could never let my guard down with her. She is an impulsive ticking eruption with a tendency to gut people like a fish if she feels for five seconds that you are a problem. Trap in the middle of both Wendy and Megan I look uncomfortable towards the empty seat next to the
Jake has experience lying to people “he took a moment or two to feel both proud and sad about his performance” (250). Unfortunately, Jake never learns his lesson “His sense of freedom swelled as he drove into the now moving street traffic, though he couldn’t stop the thought about that FM stereo radio and crushes velvet interior and the new car smell that would even make it better” (250). Jake continuous down the road he thinks is going to get him everything he wants, even though he has no job or insurance.
"Hey boy where are you going?" the driver shouted at Bill while he stretched his arms across the opening to prevent myself from stepping down. I stood waiting. "Where do you think your going?" he asked, his heavy cheeks quivering with each word. "I'd like to go to the rest room." I smiled and moved to step down. He tightened his grip on the
Arriving at Lacey’s house I walk to the backdoor letting myself into the house. Lacey was putting on tanning lotion in the kitchen, “Lacey,” I called to her, “my mom wants me to pick up snacks for the beach, do you want to go into town with me?”, “Sure,” she replied, “do you mind if my cousin comes with us?”, “Of course I don’t mind,“ I answered, “but we have to get moving, my dad only left me the car to use ‘til noon.”
As Monday morning rolled along, Molly gathered all her stuff at the door and yelled for her parents to hurry or she’d be late to catch the bus at school. With all her things stacked in the trunk of the car, her dad could hardly see past her purple suitcase in the rearview mirror, yet that didn't stop him from driving. When Molly and her family pulled up to the parking lot, it was packed with other seniors and their families, they had to park at the back near the entrance gate which was farther away from the bus she needed to go
“Where u goin n need a ride?”, Pablo, a forty five year old, male, uber driver, messages me. “Sure, meet me at the corner of detroit and wagar, please”. I could immediately tell which car was his, as I could hear his fast-beat latino music blasting down the road. As I begin to open the door, it hits me. The cancer causing, teeth staining, lung tarring, disgusting smell of Pablo’s lit cigarette sitting in the ash tray. Struggling to breathe, I politely tell him my destination to my friend Derek’s house, buckle my seatbelt, notice his unstrapped, and begin my adventure (I say adventure intending to use the true meaning of the word, an unusual, typically hazardous experience). While Pablo swerves down the road with his Latino music still blearing
Anna was slipping and sliding on the road but managing to keep control. Then a large brown delivery truck sped out of nowhere. As shocked as she was, Anna swerved out of the way. She jerked the steering wheel but the ground
The first hour of the painful two hour car ride was just me making what I thought appeared to be very valid arguments about why he should just turn around and take me back home, but he didn’t. Rather, he just sat there, nodding in a silence that somehow screamed “I don’t care!” Eventually, I succumbed to the silent scream and waited to arrive. After what seemed like a century, we arrived at the dirty farm in the evening.
It’s late Friday night, Rachel has just finished grading papers. She leaves the school and heads for Phillies, knowing Jacob will meet her there she stops to give a homeless man some change. Little does she know, he has shed his dirty coat to reveal a beautiful suit and is wiping the grime off of his face. He wants that girl’s watch so bad he can taste it. She walks into the cafe and sits at an empty seat. The man waits a few minutes before placing a hat on his head, walking inside, and sitting as far away from the girl as possible. It’s just a matter of time.
The rhythm of my morning walk to school is interrupted instantaneously by the torturing shriek of rubber tires skidding, only to be followed by the chilling screech of metal scraping metal. Down the street at the corner of St. Rose and Wyandotte, all eyes lock open in absolute shock at the tragic mess of a wrong turn. One cherry red Toyota truck had absorbed and spit out a silver Honda Civic. The surrounding air becomes smothered with a thick blend of the toxic fumes of gas and the cruel smell of charred rubber. Three young men race towards the wreck to rescue the victims trapped inside, as people take out their phones to shakily call 911. To the left, one car lays upside down, surrounded by a blanket of fragmented glass. To the right, there
One-day Kid took the two sisters to the amusement park. Because Patty kept begging and Liz had said something along the lines of, 'I don't get bumper cars. Do you race or something?' And never mind that Patty forced them all to ride everything twice till Kid upchucked. And never mind that Liz was so terrified of the Haunted House tour that she ran both Kid and Patty out of there shrieking at the top of her lungs. And never mind that Kid had a panic attack because the slushy that Patty spilt on him was not a symmetrical splatter. It had been their first real family outing…for any of them.
This story starts when Susan McConnell is walking across her school’s parking lot, thinking about their new teacher, Mr. Griffin. As she was walking across the parking lot, she thought about how she hated spring, and how she wished that she lived on a lake somewhere; She then thought about how her realist father had put it. He asked her how she was going to pay the property taxes. After that, she started realizing that of all the times that she had said someday, they would probably never mean. Just then, David, her crush, came along, and was a bit angry at the fact that his paper had been lost, except for the piece that Susan had caught.
When she entered her bedroom, and her back hit the wonderful soft bed, she mentally groaned. Why couldn’t she just stay in her bed all day long? She learned from this whole experience that you have to be careful with everybody. Be careful with what you say and or think. She did let out a noise the emitted from her throat. Which was a laugh. Her 3 children, 2 girls and a boy older than the 2 girls jumped on the bed. Craving for their mothers attention. After all that happened throughout the whole day, it wouldn’t hurt to give them a little attention? So that’s how her day began and
After getting off the phone with Eddie, Marguerite felt badly about yelling, being since it was his birthday, Marguerite decided to go apologize since she could not call Eddie back. Driving to the race track Marguerite does not know what lies ahead. Two young teenagers who do not want to be found are killing time on top of a bridge. Earlier the two teenagers had been ran out of a liquor store stealing a pack of cigarettes and a few bottles of liquor. Having drank the liquor and smoked the cigarettes they wait on the top of a bridge dropping bottles down trying to hit cars.
Waking up to a new day. As I rise from my bed I look off into the distance of my bedroom. The bedroom of my house, my very own property. I sit up from my bed, and start contemplating whether or not this is all a dream. But no, this is reality. My reality. I thank you lord for another day it is still very surreal where I am in my life now. 30 years old, living in a 3 story house with two beautiful girls, twins as a matter of fact. A gorgeous view of the world around us, looking out the windows of this gigantic house you can see nothing but beauty. Life at its finest and purity. I always keep a bible and a cross by my bedside and never forget where I came from. The real me, is me. That will never change. Nor will it ever impact me as a father to my beloved children.
Everything for a year had been leading up to this point and here I was in the middle of the happiest place on earth in tears because my friends had abandoned me in the middle of Disney on the senior trip.