it was the only thing that came to mind ..Then, a s. if it were the
proper thing to think about at this time,something dawned on
me; i f '"The Joy Ride "was 137 feet under ground , thermo w could we
have walked out a door into a parking lot?I was getting, the opin-
ion that that mall was a fraud.The next second,the mall was the
last thing on my mind,.because we crashed iota, the ground like
an atomic bomb.But that wasn’t the end,the van just kept moving
forward.! looked at Paula to see what the problem, was,and she
was frozen stiff.I didn’t notice it when the van wheeled its way
right into a backwoods trail.We didn’t last long in the trees.
The next thing I heard was a spineraking clash of the van plowing
through a cabin in the midst of all the. trees.I tried to. imag-
ine someone buying a summer house in the woods in Florida,but
it just didn’t work.^Well,.anyway,the van drove right into the
fireplace,ending our fun for tonight,because the next thing that
happened scared me more then anything else that had happened
so far tonight.! heard loud and clear^"Move your ass,or I’ll
shoot it off!"Then I saw this old guy in his pajamas with his
shotgun in his hand,ready to blow the life out of the first thing
he saw move.That was the first motion that Paula made in quite a
while was the motion of foot to gas pedal..She would’ve been bet-
ter off putting it in reverse first,but I guess a van without
an engine isn't that bad.I looked around to see if anyone was a-
,round to shoot our beads off.I'm not sure what happened to the
guy with the shotgpn