Doc's Codicil by Gary F. Jones

Author:Gary F. Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BQB Publishing
Published: 2015-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

The officers working the traffic jam and minor accidents soon had traffic moving. As they all wanted to get home at a reasonable hour, they elected not to hand out citations. Sam was the exception.

An officer made sure Fred and his family were not injured before talking to Sam. “Are you okay, son?”

“Huh?”

“I asked if you were all right. Have you been injured?”

“Injured? How?” Sam’s mind was only partially in the present. Part of it was still in the future, burying itself in the sweet tresses of Marcy’s long black hair. Or was it brown? Sam tried to remember. And it wasn’t really long, maybe “medium length” would describe it better, but she did have hair. Sam was sure of that.

“Let me ask the questions, son,” the officer said. “Do you have anything against Fred Wilson?”

“No. Who’s he?”

“He’s the gentleman driving the car you rear-ended.”

“Oh.” Sam had a sinking feeling this had something to do with why his car was in the ditch.

“If you didn’t have anything against him, can you tell me why you left the highway, drove into the ditch, and hit the rear of his car?”

Sam looked at the officer blankly for a moment before moaning, “Dad’s going to kill me.” He buried his head in his hands, as he realized that tomorrow’s date was not going to happen. He wondered if he would die of boredom or virginity first. So far, it looked like a toss-up.

The officer satisfied himself that Sam wasn’t drunk or on drugs. Trying to speed the process up, he asked, “Were you distracted by the old guy in the pickup truck that was stopped over there?” He pointed toward the spot where Tom’s pickup had been.

“Old guy?” asked Sam.

“Yes, the naked old guy in the pickup.”

“You mean somebody didn’t have any clothes on?”

“That’s usually what the word ‘naked’ means.”

“Where was that?” asked Sam.

It dawned on the officer that, wherever Sam had been physically, he hadn’t been anywhere near the highway mentally. Another teenager daydreaming behind the wheel, he concluded, and gave Sam a ticket for inattentive driving.

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