Speeding Ticket: A Short Story

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The Speeding Ticket It was a bright Sunday afternoon in early June, and this particular Sunday marked my parents' twentieth wedding anniversary. My mom told me she was giving my dad something really special for the happiest twenty years of her life, but I was not expecting what she was about to show me. “Jeff, I'm home from picking up your dad’s gift!” she called up the stairs. “Okay ma, I'll be down to see it in a minute, I'm just finishing up some homework!” I replied. I closed my algebra textbook after deciding that my homework could wait. I ran downstairs pondering what my mom could have got my dad that would be so special to my dad, nothing came straight to mind. By the time I got downstairs, Ma was already outside walking towards the …show more content…

My father and I stood in disbelief, staring at the gorgeous car that now sits uncovered in our garage. It was the car my dad had always dreamed of owning, a 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby Cobra GT500. It was the exact same color as the one featured in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds, which is my dad and I’s favorite movie. A beautiful dark gray with metallic flakes and two black racing stripes running along the entire top of the car. Once some of the shock wore off, my pops and I immediately popped the hood of the car, both hoping to find the same thing underneath it, a 429 Cobra Jet. The 429 Cobra is a very rare motor that was only used in select cars, it produces 375 horsepower and 480 foot pounds of torque. “Thank you so much for this gift!” my pops said with a lot of emotion in his voice as he ran and hugged my ma. “No thank you for twenty amazing years!” my mom replied as she pulled away after the embrace. I was already sitting in the car when my dad got in and finally started it up. Him and I sat in suspense as the starter rolled the engine to life and we both sat there smiling ear to ear as we listened to the engine rumble, producing enough horse that it was actually twisting the front end of the car everytime pops gave it some

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