Ten Hour: A Short Story

It was a cold winter’s day and a John and his wife Lucy and their 5-year-old child face the pessimistic possibility of 10 hour drives home. John was a large man in both direction and in personality. Lucy was quaint more the type to only comment when help is needed. The John says to his wife, “ it will take 7 hours for sure honey” Lucy on the other hand is navigating and tells John “no it will 9 hours, how could it possibly take longer than that” in her usual passive tone. Once in the car and the two begin to fight back seats won’t go down and all the luggage won’t fit. In this family every major movement of luggage or people leads to a clashing of two different personalities a nice helpful person and a controlling mean person. The child name is …show more content…
This seems to work. However, everyone on the road is a powder keg and James realize there is a sea of powder kegs waiting to explode all around this family. James though young in age decides to continue on with small talk, but something worst happens. Politics has been brought up. John says, “Wow I really like this guy he is going to change our country I going to vote for him I think.” Lucy says, “ how can you even stand him he is awful and wont fulfill his promises” “ You don’t know anything ok, just let me drive” “well you brought it up.” “Just let me drive” At least now John will not be yelling at you or your mom, but now the radio has become the man of the hour. James realizes this will help him fume out some of this built up anger from the stresses of driving. So he doesn’t interject and gets in on the yelling at the radio. At least politics is an outside enemy for the family to get their angers out on. So this last for a while and things seem to be good and time seems to be flying, but then comes a major intersection, one John says “I know were to go and I bet it will save us time” Lucy says “ Don’t go that way there are lights” “No you are wrong I’ve been this way many times” as always Lucy tried to help but