WFW - Crushing cars at the Dollar Store

Our Words for Wednesday prompts are being provided by Elephants Child this month, she has done a terrific job and I have really enjoyed playing along, if you want to join in simply write a story, poem or whatever ever you want, use some of the words or all of the words, then drop by Elephants Child's blog and let her know.

This weeks prompts are:

invincible, wander, goofy, supreme, purring, pretend
And/or
linen, kick, puny, immense, zoom, sound

Crushing cars at the Dollar Store

After our little Black Friday experience Cindy decided that we should drop by the Dollar store on the way home and pick up a few more Christmas ornaments for our "Outside Decorations".  She was filling me in on this part of her plan while I was loading all the goodies that she had just acquired into the back seat of the truck.

The LINEN bedsheets, my new pillow, a pair of pajamas for someone yet to be determined, and several other items that I honestly don't remember and didn't know that we really needed, call me GOOFY but after the first few items, the rest just don't seem to stick in my memory.

I had to PRETEND that I was excited to be going to the Dollar Store, when I knew for a fact that all I would do was WANDER around and look at all of the goods stuffed into every nook and cranny of the aisles, about the only thing I wanted was a few Christmas ornaments to fill in some bare spots on our tree next to the driveway, not those PUNY little balls but those big honking plastic balls, you know a little bigger than a softball, something that can be seen from the road.

The parking at the Dollar Store was tight due to the narrow parking spaces, and I was standing outside guiding Cindy while she gingerly parked the truck as straight as possible, and far enough into the space to not be sticking out and get the rear end crunched by a rogue shopping cart or another large truck passing by.

Just about the time she was satisfied with her parking and my navigating skills, over the PURRING of the trucks engine, I heard the ZOOM of a truck pass by that was ever bit as big as our Club Cab GMC, the only difference was that it was raised up so far that I would need a step ladder to climb into, and the IMMENSE tires stuck out on each side making it extremely wider than normal.

I watched this truck slow to a crawl as it navigated it's way between parked cars, then it made a right hand turn into the driving lane and that's when I heard a horrible SOUND, a loud crunching noise kind of like crushing an aluminum can.

This truck had caught the front of an SUV and the SUPREME power of this truck was INVINCIBLE as the back tire caught and pulled the front bumper, grill, front wheel well liners and one headlight off of the SUV. It looked like a Monster truck event in the Dollar Store parking lot, leaving the SUV's whole front bumper and grill assembly hanging only by one screw.

The truck slowly finished it's right hand turn and immediately parked out of the way, leaving a trail of parts and pieces behind it. A small woman about my age jumped out and cried "I should have known better than to drive this truck!" It was her husbands truck and they were in town for Thanksgiving, she said this was her first time ever driving her husband's truck, all she was doing was bringing her grandchildren to the Dollar Store.

The police were called and the owner eventually found, he was concerned about how he was going to get home. "This is our only car, I can't drive it like this" he had a friend with him that said "Sure you can, watch this"

His friend reached down and unhooked the turn signal lights, then he began to KICK down on top of the bumper until the whole assembly fell off of the front of the SUV.

As Cindy and I drove away they were trying to stuff the parts into the back of the SUV, the woman was shaking her head and watching, it had been nearly two hours and no police were there yet, but once we got home I realized something that was completely overlooked...

I never went inside the Dollar Store, and I still need those ornaments.