Car tricks

Yeah so last night Bud and I decided a fun thing to do would be to push his truck. Don’t ask, don’t ask, don’t ask. We were bored. I have a carport/flat driveway area and that’s where his truck was parked. I undid the emergency brake and put it in neutral and then ran around the front to help him push. We heaved and I nearly slid backwards with the effort until finally Bud said “if we were stuck in the middle of nowhere, trying to move my truck, we’d be screwed!” I agreed and then we decided to push my car because, as Bud said, “it’s much lighter and easier” and that seemed like a good enough reason.

My car was parked under the carport about five feet in front of the neighbor’s new fence. Again I undid the emergency brake and put my car in neutral and then ran around to the front to help him push. This time it was much more fun as we could actually get it rolling and out from under the carport. I don’t know if it was the endorphins from rolling my car or the stupidity that comes with being in love but our next trick involved Bud getting behind my car and rolling it back towards the fence. He instructed me to stand against the fence so I could yell if it got too close. For reasons I will never know, I did. He shoved the car which immediately started rolling towards me and then gave me a “look Ma! No hands!” signal. It quickly dawned on us both that my car had no intention of stopping just because a person and then a fence were in its way. My eyes met Bud’s and it took a split second for us to register that indeed he was past the point of being able to stop it. In what seemed like an hour, I jumped to the side, nearly hitting the bumper on my way and Bud opened the door, reached into the car like a cat with his tail on fire and pulled the break. Oh, only a foot or so from my neighbors new fence.

Afterwards we started babbling the way people do when they’ve just faced the possibility of death or at least great pain. Here is the conversation:

Me: Oh my God! It almost hit me!

Bud: Why didn’t you try to stop it?!

Me: I don’t know, I didn’t feel like I had time, I wasn’t sure what position would give me the most leverage, I was afraid I might get pinned. (Long pause). Wait a minute! How the hell did you just put this back on me?!

Bud: Well, I’m just saying…