Cars had been allowed to park so willy-nilly in the high school parking lot that Rock's old red Datsun station wagon was pinned in on all sides. He would have to get at least five people to move their vehicles in order to drive out.
Rock saw a school boy and his girlfriend get into a small car. It seemed obvious to him that the boy was about to try to back out of the lot without looking, and Rock's car was among those the subsequent chain reaction might damage. He ran to the boy's car.
"Hey man, you can't back up," Rock said, but it seemed as if the boy couldn't hear him. He began to back up, striking the first car, which struck the next, and so on until Rock's became part of the pile. The boy managed to push seven cars into an adjacent street.
What was particularly odd to Rock was that no one else was paying attention. Kids were on their way home, walking by all around, and weren't in any way drawn to the wreckage or the noise produced.
No comments:
Post a Comment