Yesterday I had my first “scare” while driving. (No, it wasn’t a car chase) I went to Sonic, America’s favorite and only drive-in, to have breakfast. Well, you know how sonic has those tiny parking spots that are on a diagonal and they have a menu on each side and they have the big roof over all of them.

Well they’re also numbered. There’s like 50-some odd parking spots. I decided, since it wasn’t occupied, that I’d park in spot number 1. Then I found out that spot 1 is different than every other spot. Imagine this. There’s only one menu, and it’s on my left. So, no dessert menu. This wasn’t my scare.

To my right, where the desert menu should be, theres the support beam to keep that roof from falling over. Behind that, there’s a big, short tree. And behind the tree is the lane where people pull into Sonic. So I can’t see the people coming in, or if there even is any people coming in.

I parked crooked. I suck. So, after eating my delicious Breakfast Bistro Sandwich, I find out that there’s a bunch of things wrong with this situation. If I back out fast, my right side mirror is going to hit that support beam hard. (I found this out by hitting it.) If I cut the wheel fast to avoid it and back out, the front of my car is going to hit the menu. (I found this out by hitting it.) If I back out SLOWLY, I have no idea if there’s a car whippin’ into the sonic parking lot, about to hit the back of my car, or if I’m backing into someone.

So I’m pretty much screwed.

What I had to do was back out a little bit, while cutting the wheel a lot, and then pull back forward. Then back out a little, cut the wheel, pull back. Back out, cut the wheel, pull back. Over and over. Once I figured I was in a good position to try to back out straight, int he middle of my backing out, some lady pulls into Sonic. I didn’t know this, because

that freaking tree was in the way

so she sits there waiting on me, instead of hitting me (thanks, by the way), and let’s me pull out. But I could’ve definitely hit her if I wasn’t paying attention. She honked at me, though. What I get I guess. People at sonic probably thought I was crazy, backing out and back in all those times.

Yeah.

Sonic also puts ice in their orange juice. It’s really awesome and that’s what I’m doing from now on.