The Payback Assignment
“face, down shifted, cranked the wheel and tapped her brakes.
The racing change gave her just enough of a fish tail to slide between lanes of oncoming traffic as she cocked the wheel to the right, against the one-way flow of traffic. Surprise caused the river of cars to part for her. There were raised fists and horns sounding in all possible tones and keys. From every car arose a chorus of “dumb broad”, “out-of-towner” and other dirty names New Yorkers call people.
Fel...icity smiled, affected a look of fear, embarrassment and apology, and wound through a block of impatient but obliging drivers. She had long believed the world’s most skillful drivers outside Paris, lived in New York. They could not survive otherwise. She made it to the next intersection feeling the impact of much cursing and swearing, but no collisions.
The driver of the Fiat was less fortunate. New York drivers might adjust for one idiot, but not two in a row. The hole that had opened up for the Corvette closed immediately behind it. A Lincoln was stopped, grill to grill with the Fiat.MoreLess
The racing change gave her just enough of a fish tail to slide between lanes of oncoming traffic as she cocked the wheel to the right, against the one-way flow of traffic. Surprise caused the river of cars to part for her. There were raised fists and horns sounding in all possible tones and keys. From every car arose a chorus of “dumb broad”, “out-of-towner” and other dirty names New Yorkers call people.
Fel...icity smiled, affected a look of fear, embarrassment and apology, and wound through a block of impatient but obliging drivers. She had long believed the world’s most skillful drivers outside Paris, lived in New York. They could not survive otherwise. She made it to the next intersection feeling the impact of much cursing and swearing, but no collisions.
The driver of the Fiat was less fortunate. New York drivers might adjust for one idiot, but not two in a row. The hole that had opened up for the Corvette closed immediately behind it. A Lincoln was stopped, grill to grill with the Fiat.MoreLess
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