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Personal Narrative Essay: What Happened To Me

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OMG you'll never guess what happened to me yesterday morning! Dude, you gotta hear this!” That's what I yelled painfully to a friend a day later after my moms shattered Jeep sat smashed into the front end of an unknown individuals white Ford. The feeling of distress, disbelief and fear radiated through my body. No I was not hurt, nor was my best friend Cammy, but my mind was dazed with unmanageable tears rolling down my rosy red cheeks falling off my chattering chin. My lungs felt pinched shut, with only a slight bit of air moving through them at a speedy rate. In the distance on that ooming road cars passed unaware of the situation. What just happened? The fourth irritating tone of my alarm went off and woke me as I leaped out of bed remembering I had to be prompt to pick my friend up. It was the start of a another heated summer routine kind of day, well as so I thought. Cammy and I were exchanging text messages the night before planning to go to the Mall of America …show more content…

While witnessing them pick up their phone to call the police and all I could think of was that I was about to be doomed and I had better gain the nerve to pick my phone up and break the horrible news to my mom. While on the phone I could barely process what my mom was saying because she was screaming, my mind well lets just say was in a different place and the dashboard of the car was flashing every light you could imagine. My mom and police arrived on the scene within five minutes to see my moms Jeep flashing all these lights and a undrivable car. As my mom slammed the door of my Kia shut you could see her anger fuming as she walked over to her Jeep. To make the situation even better she locked the keys in the Kia. As my mom was shouting at me it was hard to hear the cop ask questions which caused the an extra delay to leave the

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