It is approximately 6:30 p.m. as she wraps up her last class for the day. She stops at the gas station to fill up the tank and grabs a bag of sunflower seeds before she starts her hour long journey home.
As she cruises down I-70 heading west she looks at the beautiful horizon that is directly in front of her through the bug filled windshield. She attempts to clean her windshield with the window cleaner option, but that didn't seem to do any good. It just smeared the bug guts worse across the entire windshield. She attempts to spray again and again. Ahhh, she thinks to herself, "that looks a little better."
She opens her bag of sunflower seeds and pops a few in her mouth. She sucks all the salt off the shell before she cracks the shell open with her teeth. She rolls down the window and attempts to spit the shell out the window. That didn't do any good, it just flew right back in her face. She looks around and sees a napkin laying in her center console. She then spits the shell in the napkin and pops a few more in her mouth.
She scans the radio but finds nothing appealing on any station just a bunch of old songs and commercials. She turns the volume off and gazes at the horizon.
It is around 6:48 p.m. and she notices how beautiful and peaceful the horizon looks. It looks picture perfect. She never really noticed the sight before. She was always to busy to stop and appreciate what nature provides.
Dazing at the yellowish orange horizon, she gets lost in her thoughts. She finds herself thinking, dreaming and imagining. How precious and peaceful this is she thought.
Before she knew it, she was at her exit...299. "Wow," she thought, "already home."
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I was right there with you on that story. It is a beautiful drive heading west this time of year. Good descriptions.
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