The Great Blow-up

[I quite like the idea of having a funny blog, since I already have a 'deep-and-spiritually-thought-provoking' one..so I hope you find my tales as funny as I do...and if not, know that I will be chuckling at myself anyways..]

"The Great Blow-up"
-Picture a highly classy 1996 Buick cruising down the highway, windows down, music shaking its crusty old speakers, and a backseat overflowing with a mass of junk food, hawaiian leis, silly string cans, and water guns...picture 3 normal-sized ladies stuffed into the front seat, bouncing around giddily, clapping like maniacs, and raising their voices to the lines, "Ooh yea, life goes on, long after the cost of living is gone!" Little did we know the cost that would befall us on that fated summer's day..We had been quite distracted with the art of shooting our high-quality water guns into cars that passed us on the highway, and from this task perhaps we can decipher the reason for how we became so quickly disoriented...
The bouncing, clapping, and somewhat-on-key singing was carrying on quite joyfully until we heard a strange noise growing louder beneath the car..We yelled at laura (the driver) to get off the middle of the lane but she insisted that she was nowhere near it, and after the music volume dropped, we quickly realized that something was clearly wrong..The tire had blown, in fact, we now noticed the bumpiness accompaning this odd sound, so we pulled over to the side of the road..Hannah at this point decided to yell the following deadly words: "THE CAR IS GOING TO BLOW UP!!"
In the crisis of the moment, Laura and I were fully convinced that the car was going to blow up, so we jumped out, screaming wildly, hands flailing (I took a few seconds to grab my cds and guitar--very vital)..Hannah, at this point had ran down the side of the road and was watching our attempts to escape the looming danger..I believe at this point in time she may have been screaming, "RUN!!" which didn't really help the situation at hand..Laura had the unfortunate misadventure of hopping out in bare feet onto a piece of burning rubber, and though her face was contorted quite horribly in a look of pain, we urged her to jump back in and get the keys, because maybe that would prevent the blow-up..Laura finally made it to where Hannah and I had securely placed ourselves and we all slowly looked back towards the car....after a few moments of heavy panting and butterflies we realized something important: The car was NOT going to blow up. phew that was a relief...
so we got another tire out of the trunk (amazing that it was there) and decided to try and put our skills to the test..thankfully we were tested because soon after that a large man in a truck showed up, waved off our offers of car-tire-directions-for-unskilled-people, and proceeded to fix our dilemma in a matter of minutes...
the concluding statements: 1)Hannah is crazy.....2)Laura burned her foot...3)My guitar and cds evidently mean more than my life. 4) It's a really weird feeling running from a car that you think is going to blow up. 5)Hannah thought the truck drive was an angel and took a picture to see if he would show up in it.
6)We are really good at being nerds. 7)best road trip I've ever had...