Exit 2008: Epidsode 2 - Fredrick Vs. North Carolina
- By Fredrick
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Monday proved to be a trying day for us, something you don't wish to encounter your first full day on the road. We left from the Love's truck stop at 7:30am after a short rest, and breezed through the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and made it into the North Carolina welcome center hungry, tired, but happy. It would be only a matter of hours before we would be stranded.
Just outside Charlotte we encountered our first snag when the key to my gas cap broke off in the lock. At the advice of my mechanic, I tried prying the cap off with a ghetto screw driver I borrowed from the gas station, which only tore the cap off, leaving the locked cylinder in the pipe. Mira was able to get it out with a little luck and a lot of work with a pair of tweezers. A homeless drifter taped it closed with duct tape.
In less than a half an hour we were stranded on the side of the I-85, sign for Exit 2 Kings Mountain in our sights. I did what I thought was right and ran off to get some oil. The girls stayed with the car. It was sundown before I would get back.
A sweet highway man came to check on us, he would be our saving grace from the arrogant redneck that came to tow us. He took the car miles into nothing only to have his cousin, the mechanic, tell me instantly that the piston had crashed through the engine block. There was nothing we could do, it was terminal.
We got all of our stuff out of the car, while tearing out my new cd player I got a deep cut in the bend of my finger which still wont heal. The Highway man took us to the Quality Inn. He'd been with us for over an hour. I forget his name, but I want to thank that man for everything.
Music by Fleet Foxes and Old Crow Medicine Show.
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