Interstate by Stephen Dixon

Author:Stephen Dixon [Dixon, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Interstate
ISBN: 9780805050288
Publisher: Owl Books
Published: 1995-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

INTERSTATE 5

Notices the car on his left. Nothing unusual. Car driving alongside his, two guys in it. Looks at it, passenger in front smiles at him, he smiles back, looks front, car stays even with his, looks over, no particular reason, just something to do on the road, passenger talking to the driver, he accelerates a little to get ahead of them, for he doesn’t like driving alongside another car on the highway or really anyplace at the speed they’re going, sixty, sixty-five. It’s dangerous or could be. One wrong move and their cars might touch. Then he’s thinking about other things, what mail might be waiting for him at home, drink he’d like to have sometime soon after he gets home, kids are quiet in back, maybe sleeping or looking out the windows, and that’s that. Then the car’s on the other side of his. How’d it get there? Could it be the same car, for it was just over here. Looks more closely and it is. Same men, driver with the same two fingers from each hand, ones to the left and right of the thumbs, hooked under the top of the steering wheel same way as before as if he doesn’t really have that much control over it or wouldn’t in the slightest kind of ticklish driving situation. Couple of years later he thought maybe that’s what first gave me the impression it was a bad idea driving so close beside them. That if anything was unusual at first that was, driver holding the wheel with just four fingers and from under rather than over so opposite from the way he should if he was going to do it that way and loosely it seemed, though he had a strong face and the confident look of someone who was competent and experienced behind a wheel. And maybe he was holding the bottom of the wheel straight with his thighs or even his belly—he seemed heavyset—but that still wouldn’t have given him much control over it in an emergency situation. What he also should have done, he thought, was drop back instead of move ahead, for moving ahead of a car you’ve been even with awhile and which is being driven by a man and certainly when there’s nothing but men in it is a challenge of sorts to some guys, especially when you’re doing it from a slower lane. The guy might have looked like a good driver but not very bright, and neither did the guy with him, so that should have been another tip-off not to move ahead of them, for neither of them looked the type to say to the other “Hey, leave the guy alone.” Maybe in fact that’s when they thought “Let’s get on the other side of this guy as a joke, and without him even knowing we’re there till he suddenly sees us, which should freak him out good, for who’s he think he’s speeding ahead of? Hey, he wants a race, we’ll give him one and something more.

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