Mr. Doe
AP Lang 4th
31 August 2013
Upside-Down
The morning of 27 February 2013 was just like any other morning of the year. Allow me to walk you through it. My mother woke me up in a fit of rage, as she usually does (apparently I don’t wake up swiftly enough for her). After dragging myself out of bed, I threw some clothes together to look good for the ladies, and then ate some breakfast to keep myself energized for said ladies. Afterwards, I brushed my teeth, put on deodorant, and brushed my hair (don’t want to look and smell like a hobo). Finally, I kissed my mommy and said bye as I headed out the door to go to school. At this point, I hopped in my car and proceeded to plug my phone in to the stereo. If I recall correctly, …show more content…
The paramedics found it necessary to put a neck immobilizer on me, which prevented me from moving my neck in any way at all, then loaded me in the back of the ambulance. If I were Bruce Banner, I would’ve gone Hulk mode on them in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I’m Justin Smith, so all I could do was lay there and take it. I put up a pretty good fight though. I soon found out that squirming around made the paramedics quite mad. After figuring this out, I began to do it quite often just to spite them. I think the most common phrase I heard in the back of the ambulance that day was “Calm down there.” Little did they know, infuriating them was actually calming me down. Silly …show more content…
There was one minor flaw in my plan though; my phone was in my car (hopefully). I told my mom and she took me by the towing service where I saw the scraps of what remained of my car. I instantly dove into the mangled mess of metal and broken glass in hopes of finding my precious phone. I searched far and wide for it, but found nothing. Then I heard a beautiful noise; BZZZZZ. BZZZZZ. The sound of what I thought was my hopelessly lost phone lit up my day like a firework. I found it lying under my seat without a single scratch on it. I would make a Lord of the Rings reference, but I would probably get chastised for being too