A Friend in Need

It was a late winter night and I had just gotten home from hockey practice. I go upstairs to my room and I get a call from my friend Liam. He got stuck at the end of his road because he thought it would be cool to drift into his road and needs some assistance getting out. So I put on my boots and coat then go and start the truck. As I get to where Liam went off the road I back in and hook up the rope to his tow hooks. I didn’t think anybody could get this stuck by just over shooting the entrance to his road. I get out to see what the damage was but doesn’t look like anything to hard. I hop back into the truck and put it into four wheel drive and start to muscle the truck out of the ditch. But Liam’s truck does not want to cooperate and it falls back into the ditch. Now Liam’s truck weighs about a thousand pounds more than my truck. So I start to get pulled into the ditch with him. I’m trying to keep the truck on the road but I just can’t, I feel the tires slipping and squealing the back of the truck starting to slowly pull back into the ditch. So now instead of having just one car in the ditch there’s two. I could tell by the worryful look that was painted on his face.

I did the only thing I could and that was call Triple A to tow us out. After waiting in the ditch for 30 minuets freezing, the tow truck showed up with a huge flat bed truck and a tiny man hopped out. Short little man with a very short temper too; He backs the flatbed to the ditch and hooks a rope up to my front tow hooks and I feel the front of the truck inching to the top of the ditch. My front bumper creeps over the start to the ditch and I was out. Then we unhook from mine and he goes back into the ditch and we repeat the same process. We tipped the tow truck driver and headed home.

As I’m on my way home I realize that I’m on empty from trying to get Liam out of the ditch. I have 5 miles to go on my range and a 10 mile trip home. I’m going up the massive South Monmouth hill when I feel the engine starting to sputter, I just barely make it to the top of the hill and then force the car into neutral to cost down the hill and squeeze every mile out of it. As I am coasting I feel the car start to slow down gradually I put the car back into drive to see if I can get every drop of gas out of the tank, but I have no gas at all.I steer the car to the side of the road where I put on my hazards. This was just my luck, only this could happen to me right now but i remained calm and knew exactly who to call, Liam. After I get done calling Liam I wait there hungry, cold, and tired. I see some headlights starting to form over the top of the hill and then pull up behind me. Relieved to see Liam I jump out of the truck to put the gas in my truck. True friends will help each other no matter the time or place.

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