We thought someone was out in our back yard so we ran to tell our mother. Our step-dad went outside to investigate when he saw a police car go by and announce over his loud speaker to evacuate immediately there was a 20 foot wall of water coming down the canyon. We hurried and got in our car wearing only our pajamas, and drove to our neighbors. Our neighbors lived at the top of a big hill. I remember going out on the balcony and hearing all kinds of horrific noises.
_ Instead of staying behind the morning of the trip, the grandmother is the first one in the car. While traveling the grandmother tells the children a made up story about a plantation house that she had once visited with a secret panel only to excite the children so they would beg their parents to visit it. After a trip down the long dirt road the grandmother realizes that the plantation house was not in Georgia but in Tennessee. Too embarrassed to admit her mistake she causes her cat who she secretly concealed into the car jump out onto her son Baily who is driving. He then crashes the car into a ditch and the family is stranded.
Information Literacy Professor Phillips Carroll Gordon Child safety and pedophiles Samantha Runnion a 5 year old little girl who was in her front yard playing with her friend, when a man claims to be looking for his dog, walks up in her yard and picks her up. As she and her friend is screaming and he throws her in the car. The mom runs out to see what was happening and by then he drove off. Samantha was found dead the next day. (http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/runnion.html) A 6 year old little girl name Destiny Wright staying with her grand mom goes over to her grand moms friends house for a sleep over and turns up missing and found dead.
His grandkids are all over after the ceremony and he finds his grand daughter, Ashley, smoking next to his car. She asks what kind of car it is and he tells her it’s a Gran Torino. Then she asks what she can have after he dies. He gets angry and walks away. His neighbor from the Hmong family, Thao, comes over for jumper cables and Walt gets angry and insults him.
As Perry walks thinking to himself about what just happened a lady jumps out of her car and yells Michael’s name. It was Perry’s girlfriend from high school; she jumps on him and gives him a big hug. In one moment Perry recalls a random night that he would never have thought about if it wasn’t for him remembering the smell of her “spearmint kisses.” No words were needed to be said, all it took was his nostrils inhaling the sweet smell of her fresh breath and the memories flashed through his head. Being a paramedic, nurse, and firefighter, Perry tells some stories that are very sad and seems to put him into a lower mood. Some of the
My girlfriend had to use the bathroom really bad and get her medication from my room because we were staying at my friend’s house. A car in front of us was going 5 mph. How do I know, because I was going the same speed if not slower? There were no cars around, so I carefully went around the car and proceeded to Boehlert Hall. As I was parked in front of Boehlert waiting for my girlfriend, the campus safety officer gave
I ran into the house and grabbed my baby and started to pray. Then the shots stopped, and we heard a truck start up in the field across from the house. It was speeding through the field and pulled onto the road and proceeds to yell out racist slurs as they speed away. Luckily no one at the cookout was harmed. Finally, a police officer showed up and as we were standing outside telling the officer about the episode that had just happened gun shots rang out for a second time and the policeman ran, jumped in his car and pulled off speeding with his lights on.
UNEXPECTED TORNADO TEARS A TOWNS 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION Sunday, July 5, 2012. By: Anna Maracle Marble Hill, Missouri — Stella Gray sitting on her front porch when she saw a tornado rumble across a hill. So, she grabbed her two pugs, Bubba and Belle, and hid in the bathroom. "I could hear all around me the trees twisting and swaying," she said. "I asked God to protect us because it was like you were looking in the eyes of death.
I hid behind the door because I didn't want anyone to see me. When scout got home she was telling Atticus all about Bob attacking Jem and "someone" saving him and taking him home but but the "someone" was someone she had never seen him before. Atticus interrupted "Who saved Jem?" Soon she saw me behind that door and told her dad "why don't you just ask him yourself."
She responded immediately by saying that one night she was driving to Parent Night at her school and she hit the principal’s car in the parking lot. Her dad was with her and made her tell the principal what had transpired. At this point she realized that she had matured and could not run away from her problems anymore. When I asked how she felt about the incident, she recalled, “ I was terrified, and felt horrible knowing I had hit the principal’s car, and I thought my was thinking that I was a bad driver and could not be trusted.” But afterwards she felt calm and serene, as if taking the responsibility for the accident had somehow transformed her into a more mature person, not quite an adult yet, but closer than before. In conclusion, I thought my mom had an interesting experience in high school, and that her Coming of Age incident was fairly unique.