Personal Narrative: The Macomb

It was early March and my family and I were heading out to Beardstown, IL to see my cousins. We had just got done talking over the phone with my uncle, then my parents told my brothers and me that we were going to go see them tomorrow. My parents were also talking on the phone with them about letting my brothers and I sleeping over at their house. Later when we arrived we went to their house and ate breakfast, while my parents and and my uncle were talking we played video games with my cousin. Later when we had just said goodbye to my uncle and aunt my parents decided that we were going to go to springfield to the mall and the grocery store. So we went to Springfield and we bought the groceries and went to the mall. While in the mall we could …show more content…
Halfway to Macomb it started snowing just a little, my dad turned on the windshield wipers when we were near Macomb it started to snow a lot so much snow was falling we couldn’t see more ahead much this with the already lair of ice made the road hard to drive …show more content…
After seeing the truck I thought that he was driving reckless but I saw car after car in the ditches and I could tell my dad was nervous he was sweating a lot. We then saw that a car behind us had the high beam lights on and we also saw it coming real quick and it was a big car that had to cross to the other side of the road to pass us because he wasn't able to stop, it was those cars that remove snow and put salt on the road going that quick. By then my dad was near extreme nervousness and was scared. My parents then started arguing why they didn’t stop earlier when it wasn’t that bad to a hotel or stopped at my uncle's house. They then stopped arguing when we were in Monmouth I could tell that both my parents were really relieved because they went to sleep early. This was a lesson that both my parents and I learned because know my dad and mom both always watch the weather on their phones before going anywhere and I now know when it is an ok time to