WAITING FOR THE CAR (standard:humor, 245 words)
Author: Jennifer Green	Added: Jul 21 2001	Views/Reads: 3937/1	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Funny very short story about waiting for your car to be serviced.

WAITING FOR THE CAR 

Copyright 2001 by Jennifer Green 

Sitting there waiting for the car to be serviced, at first it's nice. 
You look around at the new models, have some rotten coffee, check out 
the little parts and accessories shop.  Do they ever sell anything in 
there?  You read the paper, a magazine or two.  Then you wait.  And 
wait.  You ask, "How much longer?"  They tell you another hour.  You 
sit and wait some more. 

You look around, make three unnecessary trips to the bathroom, and then
in desperation, you try to strike up a conversation with a fellow 
customer.  Her mother must have warned her a little too forcefully 
about stranger danger, because she just glares back at you like you're 
some nutcase. 

You wait some more.  The walls start to close in on you.  You start to
feel like you're serving time in prison, and since they have your 
wheels up on the block, there is no possibility of escape.  Panic 
starts to set in.  Soon your heart is racing, your palms break out into 
a cold sweat, and you realize you're starting to hyperventilate.  Just 
when you think you've got to make a run for it, before you loose your 
very grip on reality, the service guy comes out and casually says, "95 
Honda Civic?" 

You could have had his child, you're so grateful.  Instead, you get up,
and say,  ultra cool, "Yeah, that's me," and pick up the keys. 


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