Posted: July 6th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: best friend, black hair, black shorts, bush, cell phone, dark brown eyes, dark forest, fingers, grammer, light sweater, lily, mom, Pocket knife, spelling, swipe, time of need, trees | 4 Comments »
(warning maybe a lot of spelling and grammer mistakes I have a learning disabilty so srry)
I walked into the cold damp forest, with bare feet and a light sweater with black shorts. As I walked past the trees, I let them swipe my hand. The bark was cold, I felt my fingers tingel but they hurt. I stopped and pulled out my black and sliver pocket knife, and I started carving into the tree. There was a noise coming out of the bush that was behind me. I stopped and dropped my knife I was scared.
I tall figuer stepped out, he was tan, with black hair and dark brown eyes. He spoke softly to me, "Karen come back with me I want to, we want to exsplane Karen," he put his hand foward I backed up into the tree.
I picked my knife, and didn’t think twise, I pointed it at him. "You bastered you think you can come out here to come get me, you make me sick to even look at you. I wish the both of you were dead," he stayed quite, "so why do you want to bring me back so you can tell me why your sleeping with my mother!" at that point I started to yell and cry.
He looked at the ground finding, what words to say "at lest you didn’t find out from lily…"
I turnned to the tree and sat down in front of it "she knew to" I couldn’t believe it the girl I shared most of my life with my best friend she had been lieing to me to this hole time… "do not tell me you slept with her too" I yelled at him, he still didn’t say anything. "Tell me it’s not ture, tell me!" I yelled. I took my cell phone at of my pocket and thrown it at him. I ran he started chaceing me I ran so fast that he was not able to keep up with me. I lost him in the deep dark forest. Now I was lost my self. My life was ruined, it was all about do good in your junior year. Have your friend one who you could depended on in a time of need. I boyfriend for someone to be there for you. When all else failed at least I would have my mom… Nothing what I was ever told was ture. I had it with them I’m done.
I started to run again, till I was on the other side of the forest. Then I saw light on the other side I ran to it in hopes of getting out. As soon as I stepped out, I tripped over a rock on to a guy who was a few inchs taller then me. I fell on top of him, when I open my eyes I was looking into his dark blue eyes. I had suddenly realized that I was still on him. I got off and stood my self up. I didn’t know what to do I had mud and dirt all over me I stayed silent. He looked at me sweetly and asked, "why are you crying? Are you ok?"
I shook my head I knew I wasn’t ok I was damp and cold. I didn’t want to move. All I could say to him was that "I’m cold." nothing else. He took off his coat and put it around me and we just started walking. I had no idea were I was going my face was red and I wasn’t sure if I had a cut on my lip. All I did know everything was hurting. We walked into a big white house where everything looked like it belonged inside a log cabbin. But it was cozy and warm it
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Posted: March 14th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: cell phone, chains, conveyor belt, dreams, hostage, nah, quot, risk, sharp knife | 3 Comments »
I had this dream where me and some of my friends got captured and held hostage in a factory thing. We were tied up on the conveyor belt. Unlike most other dreams, I could think semi-clearly, and decided ways to escape. I knew I had my cell phone in my pocket. I slipped out of the chains and left them dangling in front of me so I was free, but didn’t look it.
1. I could just run for it and leave everyone behind. (Nah, I’m not that mean..)
2. I could call the police and risk being heard by one of the people patrolling around.
3. I could help everyone else get out and we all run away at once.
I decided 3. was the best. Somehow I acquired a small but sharp knife and was reaching over to cut the boy next to me’s chains, then one of the men patrolling around shouted, "HEY!"
Then I woke up.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Also if it helps, I have lots of dreams that end like this..right before I get to solve the problem.. it bothers me so much. D:
Posted: February 19th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: author unknown, auto accident, badlands, cactus, cell phone, cross country travel, ethanol, flashlight, lips, little bit, Pocket knife, poison, rattlesnake, reapplication, sun block, sunblock, umbrella, walking at night, water bottle, windshield wiper fluid | 5 Comments »
Lost in the Desert
(Author unknown)
So, there’s a man crawling through the desert.
He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had no family, his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few friends had no idea he was out here.
He stayed with the car for a day or so, but his one bottle of water ran out and he was getting thirsty. He thought maybe he knew the direction back, now that he’d paid attention to the sun and thought he’d figured out which way was north, so he decided to start walking. He figured he only had to go about 30 miles or so and he’d be back to the small town he’d gotten gas in last.
He thinks about walking at night to avoid the heat and sun, but based upon how dark it actually was the night before, and given that he has no flashlight, he’s afraid that he’ll break a leg or step on a rattlesnake. So, he puts on some sun block, puts the rest in his pocket for reapplication later, brings an umbrella he’d had in the back of the SUV with him to give him a little shade, pours the windshield wiper fluid into his water bottle in case he gets that desperate, brings his pocket knife in case he finds a cactus that looks like it might have water in it, and heads out in the direction he thinks is right.
He walks for the entire day. By the end of the day he’s really thirsty. He’s been sweating all day, and his lips are starting to crack. He’s reapplied the sunblock twice, and tried to stay under the umbrella, but he still feels sunburned. The windshield wiper fluid sloshing in the bottle in his pocket
is really getting tempting now. He knows that it’s mainly water and some ethanol and coloring, but he also knows that they add some kind of poison to
it to keep people from drinking it. He wonders what the poison is, and whether the poison would be worse than dying of thirst.
He pushes on, trying to get to that small town before dark.
By the end of the day he starts getting worried. He figures he’s been walking at least 3 miles an hour, according to his watch for over 10 hours. That means that if his estimate was right that he should be close to the town. But he doesn’t recognize any of this. He had to cross a dry creek bed a mile or two back, and he doesn’t remember coming through it in the SUV. He figures that maybe he got his direction off just a little and that the dry creek bed was just off to one side of his path. He tells himself that he’s close, and that after dark he’ll start seeing the town lights over one of these hills, and that’ll be all he needs.
As it gets dim enough that he starts stumbling over small rocks and things, he finds a spot and sits down to wait for full dark and the town lights.
Full dark comes before he knows it. He must have dozed off. He stands back up and turns all the way around. He sees nothing but stars.
He wakes up the next morning feeling absolutely lousy. His eyes are gummy and his mouth and nose feel like they’re full of sand. He so thirsty that he can’t even swallow. He barely got any sleep because it was so cold. He’d forgotten how cold it got at night in the desert and hadn’t noticed it the night before because he’d been in his car.
He knows the Rule of Threes – three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food – then you die. Some people can make it a little longer, in the best situations. But the desert heat and having to walk and sweat isn’t the best situation to be without water. He figures, unless he finds water, this is his last day.
He rinses his mouth out with a little of the windshield wiper fluid. He waits a while after spitting that little bit out, to see if his mouth goes numb, or he feels dizzy or something. Has his mouth gone numb? Is it just in his mind? He’s not sure. He’ll go a little farther, and if he still doesn’t find water, he’ll try drinking some of the fluid.
Then he has to face his next, harder question – which way does he go from here? Does he keep walking the same way he was yesterday (assuming that he still knows which way that is), or does he try a new direction? He has no idea what to do.
Looking at the hills and dunes around him, he thinks he knows the direction he was heading before. Just going by a feeling, he points himself somewhat to the left of that, and starts walking.
As he walks, the day starts heating up. The desert, too cold just a couple of hours before, soon becomes an oven again. He sweats a little at first, and then stops. He starts getting worried at that – when you stop sweating he knows that means you’re in trouble – usually right before heat stroke.
He decides that it’s time to try the windshield wiper fluid. He can’t wait any longer – if he passes out, he’s dead. He stops
Posted: January 6th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: 4th quarter, cell phone, cousin, dad, facebook, god, guy friends, joke, late at night, medicine, night time, one of my best friends, parents, self injury, shoulders, sports, stress | 1 Comment »
So, just in the past few months, I have had 6 people tell me they were suicidal. One of them texted me saying she had a knife, and I talked her out of it. I also talked this other girl out of it on the spot. I had one of my guy friends randomly joke about it.. and I tried to talk to him and it turns out he is suicidal. It’s really really complicated, but I don’t think he would benefit from me telling anyone about it. One of my best friends told me that she had been suicidal and it got me really worried, but not she is on medicine and is doing better. My cousin (who is my age and in my class) had her status on facebook as something like "tell my sister that I will miss her and tell my other sister that she won’t have to worry after tonight." I freaked out and called her house (she doesn’t have a cell phone), and her dad answered. He insisted it was too late at night to talk to her, so I had to tell him what she wrote. She had tried that night, but didn’t succeed, thank God!
And I have had many people tell me that they cut themselves. I’m not sure what to do in this situation because I have struggled with self injury myself. I have been extremely stressed in the 4th quarter. My parents expect straight A’s and I’m in so many sports I felt like I didn’t have enough time to get everything done. I managed to get all A’s and one B, and now school’s out.
I thought I would feel so much better with that enormous amount of stress on my shoulders, but I don’t. I always feel stressed. People tell me all their problems.. I know secrets about everyone. One girl told me she was raped by her dad when she was younger (don’t worry, her dad is in jail and can’t get to her now), another girl told me she was bisexual, etc.
I love to help people, but all this stress is killing me. The self injury is getting worse and I don’t feel like I even control it anymore. Night time is really bad, because physically, I have no energy, but my mind is always wide awake and I am forced to stay up and be alone with my thoughts. It’s a long story, but I have a lot to think about. I get flashbacks to some past abuse situations, and I physically feel myself cringe.
Little things trip memories off, and I just have to be alone. It sends me into depression and I feel like I lose my ability to communicate with people properly. One time I went to the bathroom in homeroom just to be alone and I ended up hurting myself with a pin that was in my pocket. Why? I don’t want to feel like this anymore. I just always feel confused.
And don’t be too harsh, I’m only 14..
Posted: December 27th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: 4th quarter, cell phone, cousin, dad, facebook, god, guy friends, joke, late at night, medicine, night time, one of my best friends, parents, self injury, shoulders, sports, stress | 4 Comments »
So, just in the past few months, I have had 6 people tell me they were suicidal. One of them texted me saying she had a knife, and I talked her out of it. I also talked this other girl out of it on the spot. I had one of my guy friends randomly joke about it.. and I tried to talk to him and it turns out he is suicidal. It’s really really complicated, but I don’t think he would benefit from me telling anyone about it. One of my best friends told me that she had been suicidal and it got me really worried, but not she is on medicine and is doing better. My cousin (who is my age and in my class) had her status on facebook as something like "tell my sister that I will miss her and tell my other sister that she won’t have to worry after tonight." I freaked out and called her house (she doesn’t have a cell phone), and her dad answered. He insisted it was too late at night to talk to her, so I had to tell him what she wrote. She had tried that night, but didn’t succeed, thank God!
And I have had many people tell me that they cut themselves. I’m not sure what to do in this situation because I have struggled with self injury myself. I have been extremely stressed in the 4th quarter. My parents expect straight A’s and I’m in so many sports I felt like I didn’t have enough time to get everything done. I managed to get all A’s and one B, and now school’s out.
I thought I would feel so much better with that enormous amount of stress on my shoulders, but I don’t. I always feel stressed. People tell me all their problems.. I know secrets about everyone. One girl told me she was raped by her dad when she was younger (don’t worry, her dad is in jail and can’t get to her now), another girl told me she was bisexual, etc.
I love to help people, but all this stress is killing me. The self injury is getting worse and I don’t feel like I even control it anymore. Night time is really bad, because physically, I have no energy, but my mind is always wide awake and I am forced to stay up and be alone with my thoughts. It’s a long story, but I have a lot to think about. I get flashbacks to some past abuse situations, and I physically feel myself cringe.
Little things trip memories off, and I just have to be alone. It sends me into depression and I feel like I lose my ability to communicate with people properly. One time I went to the bathroom in homeroom just to be alone and I ended up hurting myself with a pin that was in my pocket. Why? I don’t want to feel like this anymore. I just always feel confused.
And don’t be too harsh, I’m only 14..
Posted: October 21st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: cell phone, logical answer, Pocket knife, stab, stalkers, strange character, watching your every move, zac efron | 4 Comments »
You’ve noticed a very strange character watching your every move. Then he has other people stalking you. You are in the forest and one of those stalkers confronts you. He is about 6’6 and he has a net. You have no ideas what he’s capable of and how will you escape?
Think this through carefully. You only have a pocket knife and a cell phone. If you are weak or slow, don’t tell me you will run and find help or stab him.
Whoever has the most honest and best logical answer will get 10 points!
You can’t do magic.
You have to answer this logically. I will Avada Kedavera you if you don’t answer this how you should.
You can’t mess with this big guy. Zac Efron is useless.
Posted: October 16th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: absolute emergency, best friends, camping, cell phone, first night, own clothes, parents, Pocket knife, Survival, tent | 5 Comments »
Me and my best friends are really into camping and survival stuff. My uncle owns tons of land where we can go and theres nobody for like 100 miles. Well the plan is to go to one of these places, and all we start with is a pocket knife, and an ABSOLUTE EMERGENCY ONLY cell phone. My parents are fine with it as long as we promise to call if theres a big problem. We will have to make our own clothes, temporary houses, find food, water etc. We know lots of techniques and survival stuff, even though we are all only 14. The only things my parents are worried about is freezing on the first night, since we dont have any clothes, or a tent to start off, but we assured them that we will keep warm. Is this a good idea?
Posted: September 3rd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: auto accident, badlands, cactus, cell phone, cross country travel, desert, ethanol, flashlight, lips, little bit, Pocket knife, poison, rattlesnake, reapplication, sun block, sunblock, umbrella, walking at night, water bottle, windshield wiper fluid | 7 Comments »
So, there’s a man crawling through the desert.
He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had no family, his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few friends had no idea he was out here.
He stayed with the car for a day or so, but his one bottle of water ran out and he was getting thirsty. He thought maybe he knew the direction back, now that he’d paid attention to the sun and thought he’d figured out which way was north, so he decided to start walking. He figured he only had to go about 30 miles or so and he’d be back to the small town he’d gotten gas in last.
He thinks about walking at night to avoid the heat and sun, but based upon how dark it actually was the night before, and given that he has no flashlight, he’s afraid that he’ll break a leg or step on a rattlesnake. So, he puts on some sun block, puts the rest in his pocket for reapplication later, brings an umbrella he’d had in the back of the SUV with him to give him a little shade, pours the windshield wiper fluid into his water bottle in case he gets that desperate, brings his pocket knife in case he finds a cactus that looks like it might have water in it, and heads out in the direction he thinks is right.
He walks for the entire day. By the end of the day he’s really thirsty. He’s been sweating all day, and his lips are starting to crack. He’s reapplied the sunblock twice, and tried to stay under the umbrella, but he still feels sunburned. The windshield wiper fluid sloshing in the bottle in his pocket
is really getting tempting now. He knows that it’s mainly water and some ethanol and coloring, but he also knows that they add some kind of poison to
it to keep people from drinking it. He wonders what the poison is, and whether the poison would be worse than dying of thirst.
He pushes on, trying to get to that small town before dark.
By the end of the day he starts getting worried. He figures he’s been walking at least 3 miles an hour, according to his watch for over 10 hours. That means that if his estimate was right that he should be close to the town. But he doesn’t recognize any of this. He had to cross a dry creek bed a mile or two back, and he doesn’t remember coming through it in the SUV. He figures that maybe he got his direction off just a little and that the dry creek bed was just off to one side of his path. He tells himself that he’s close, and that after dark he’ll start seeing the town lights over one of these hills, and that’ll be all he needs.
As it gets dim enough that he starts stumbling over small rocks and things, he finds a spot and sits down to wait for full dark and the town lights.
Full dark comes before he knows it. He must have dozed off. He stands back up and turns all the way around. He sees nothing but stars.
He wakes up the next morning feeling absolutely lousy. His eyes are gummy and his mouth and nose feel like they’re full of sand. He so thirsty that he can’t even swallow. He barely got any sleep because it was so cold. He’d forgotten how cold it got at night in the desert and hadn’t noticed it the night before because he’d been in his car.
He knows the Rule of Threes – three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food – then you die. Some people can make it a little longer, in the best situations. But the desert heat and having to walk and sweat isn’t the best situation to be without water. He figures, unless he finds water, this is his last day.
He rinses his mouth out with a little of the windshield wiper fluid. He waits a while after spitting that little bit out, to see if his mouth goes numb, or he feels dizzy or something. Has his mouth gone numb? Is it just in his mind? He’s not sure. He’ll go a little farther, and if he still doesn’t find water, he’ll try drinking some of the fluid.
Then he has to face his next, harder question – which way does he go from here? Does he keep walking the same way he was yesterday (assuming that he still knows which way that is), or does he try a new direction? He has no idea what to do.
Looking at the hills and dunes around him, he thinks he knows the direction he was heading before. Just going by a feeling, he points himself somewhat to the left of that, and starts walking.
As he walks, the day starts heating up. The desert, too cold just a couple of hours before, soon becomes an oven again. He sweats a little at first, and then stops. He starts getting worried at that – when you stop sweating he knows that means you’re in trouble – usually right before heat stroke.
He decides that it’s time to try the windshield wiper fluid. He can’t wait any longer – if he passes out, he’s dead. He stops in the shade of a large rock, takes the bottle
Posted: September 2nd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: author unknown, auto accident, badlands, cactus, cell phone, cross country travel, ethanol, flashlight, joke, lips, little bit, Pocket knife, rattlesnake, reapplication, sun block, sunblock, umbrella, walking at night, water bottle, windshield wiper fluid | 3 Comments »
I think it’s this one. I didn’t read the whole thing. Just first and last paragragp.
The Longest Joke in the World
* * *
Lost in the Desert (Author unknown)
So, there’s a man crawling through the desert.
He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had no family, his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few friends had no idea he was out here.
He stayed with the car for a day or so, but his one bottle of water ran out and he was getting thirsty. He thought maybe he knew the direction back, now that he’d paid attention to the sun and thought he’d figured out which way was north, so he decided to start walking. He figured he only had to go about 30 miles or so and he’d be back to the small town he’d gotten gas in last.
He thinks about walking at night to avoid the heat and sun, but based upon how dark it actually was the night before, and given that he has no flashlight, he’s afraid that he’ll break a leg or step on a rattlesnake. So, he puts on some sun block, puts the rest in his pocket for reapplication later, brings an umbrella he’d had in the back of the SUV with him to give him a little shade, pours the windshield wiper fluid into his water bottle in case he gets that desperate, brings his pocket knife in case he finds a cactus that looks like it might have water in it, and heads out in the
direction he thinks is right.
He walks for the entire day. By the end of the day he’s really thirsty. He’s been sweating all day, and his lips are starting to crack. He’s reapplied the sunblock twice, and tried to stay under the umbrella, but he still feels sunburned. The windshield wiper fluid sloshing in the bottle in his pocket is really getting tempting now. He knows that it’s mainly water and some ethanol and coloring, but he also knows that they add some kind of poison to it to keep people from drinking it. He wonders what the poison is, and whether the poison would be worse than dying of thirst.
He pushes on, trying to get to that small town before dark.
By the end of the day he starts getting worried. He figures he’s been walking at least 3 miles an hour, according to his watch for over 10 hours. That means that if his estimate was right that he should be close to the town. But he doesn’t recognize any of this. He had to cross a dry creek bed a mile or two back, and he doesn’t remember coming through it in the SUV. He figures that maybe he got his direction off just a little and that the dry creek bed was just off to one side of his path. He tells himself that he’s close, and that after dark he’ll start seeing the town lights over one of these hills, and that’ll be all he needs.
As it gets dim enough that he starts stumbling over small rocks and things, he finds a spot and sits down to wait for full dark and the town lights.
Full dark comes before he knows it. He must have dozed off. He stands back up and turns all the way around. He sees nothing but stars.
He wakes up the next morning feeling absolutely lousy. His eyes are gummy and his mouth and nose feel like they’re full of sand. He so thirsty that he can’t even swallow. He barely got any sleep because it was so cold. He’d forgotten how cold it got at night in the desert and hadn’t noticed it the night before because he’d been in his car.
He knows the Rule of Threes – three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food – then you die. Some people can make it a little longer, in the best situations. But the desert heat and having to walk and sweat isn’t the best situation to be without water. He figures, unless he finds water, this is his last day.
He rinses his mouth out with a little of the windshield wiper fluid. He waits a while after spitting that little bit out, to see if his mouth goes numb, or he feels dizzy or something. Has his mouth gone numb? Is it just in his mind? He’s not sure. He’ll go a little farther, and if he still doesn’t find water, he’ll try drinking some of the fluid.
Then he has to face his next, harder question – which way does he go from here? Does he keep walking the same way he was yesterday (assuming that he still knows which way that is), or does he try a new direction? He has no idea what to do.
Looking at the hills and dunes around him, he thinks he knows the direction he was heading before. Just going by a feeling, he points himself somewhat to the left of that, and starts walking.
As he walks, the day starts heating up. The desert, too cold just a couple of hours before, soon becomes an oven again. He sweats a little at first, and then stops. He starts getting worried at that – when you stop sweating he knows that means you’re in trouble – usually right before heat stroke.
He decide
He decides that it’s time to try the windshield wiper fluid. He can’t wait
any longer – if he passes out, he’s dead. He stops in the shade of a large
rock, takes the bottle out, opens it, and takes a mouthful. He slowly
swallows it, making it last as long as he can. It feels so good in his dry
and cracked throat that he doesn’t even care about the nasty taste. He takes
another mouthful, and makes it last too. Slowly, he drinks half the bottle.
He figures that since he’s drinking it, he might as well drink enough to
make some difference and keep himself from passing out.
He’s quit worrying about the denaturing of the wiper fluid. If it kills him,
it kills him – if he didn’t drink it, he’d die anyway. Besides, he’s pretty
sure that whatever substance they denature the fluid with is just designed to make you sick – their way of keeping winos from buying cheap wiper fluid for the ethanol content. He can handle throwing up, if it comes to that.
He walks. He walks in the hot,
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Posted: August 31st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Questions | Tags: auto accident, badlands, cactus, cell phone, cross country travel, desert, ethanol, flashlight, lips, little bit, Pocket knife, poison, rattlesnake, reapplication, sun block, sunblock, umbrella, walking at night, water bottle, windshield wiper fluid | 5 Comments »
So, there’s a man crawling through the desert.
He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had no family, his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few friends had no idea he was out here.
He stayed with the car for a day or so, but his one bottle of water ran out and he was getting thirsty. He thought maybe he knew the direction back, now that he’d paid attention to the sun and thought he’d figured out which way was north, so he decided to start walking. He figured he only had to go about 30 miles or so and he’d be back to the small town he’d gotten gas in last.
He thinks about walking at night to avoid the heat and sun, but based upon how dark it actually was the night before, and given that he has no flashlight, he’s afraid that he’ll break a leg or step on a rattlesnake. So, he puts on some sun block, puts the rest in his pocket for reapplication later, brings an umbrella he’d had in the back of the SUV with him to give him a little shade, pours the windshield wiper fluid into his water bottle in case he gets that desperate, brings his pocket knife in case he finds a cactus that looks like it might have water in it, and heads out in the direction he thinks is right.
He walks for the entire day. By the end of the day he’s really thirsty. He’s been sweating all day, and his lips are starting to crack. He’s reapplied the sunblock twice, and tried to stay under the umbrella, but he still feels sunburned. The windshield wiper fluid sloshing in the bottle in his pocket
is really getting tempting now. He knows that it’s mainly water and some ethanol and coloring, but he also knows that they add some kind of poison to
it to keep people from drinking it. He wonders what the poison is, and whether the poison would be worse than dying of thirst.
He pushes on, trying to get to that small town before dark.
By the end of the day he starts getting worried. He figures he’s been walking at least 3 miles an hour, according to his watch for over 10 hours. That means that if his estimate was right that he should be close to the town. But he doesn’t recognize any of this. He had to cross a dry creek bed a mile or two back, and he doesn’t remember coming through it in the SUV. He figures that maybe he got his direction off just a little and that the dry creek bed was just off to one side of his path. He tells himself that he’s close, and that after dark he’ll start seeing the town lights over one of these hills, and that’ll be all he needs.
As it gets dim enough that he starts stumbling over small rocks and things, he finds a spot and sits down to wait for full dark and the town lights.
Full dark comes before he knows it. He must have dozed off. He stands back up and turns all the way around. He sees nothing but stars.
He wakes up the next morning feeling absolutely lousy. His eyes are gummy and his mouth and nose feel like they’re full of sand. He so thirsty that he can’t even swallow. He barely got any sleep because it was so cold. He’d forgotten how cold it got at night in the desert and hadn’t noticed it the night before because he’d been in his car.
He knows the Rule of Threes – three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food – then you die. Some people can make it a little longer, in the best situations. But the desert heat and having to walk and sweat isn’t the best situation to be without water. He figures, unless he finds water, this is his last day.
He rinses his mouth out with a little of the windshield wiper fluid. He waits a while after spitting that little bit out, to see if his mouth goes numb, or he feels dizzy or something. Has his mouth gone numb? Is it just in his mind? He’s not sure. He’ll go a little farther, and if he still doesn’t find water, he’ll try drinking some of the fluid.
Then he has to face his next, harder question – which way does he go from here? Does he keep walking the same way he was yesterday (assuming that he still knows which way that is), or does he try a new direction? He has no idea what to do.
Looking at the hills and dunes around him, he thinks he knows the direction he was heading before. Just going by a feeling, he points himself somewhat to the left of that, and starts walking.
As he walks, the day starts heating up. The desert, too cold just a couple of hours before, soon becomes an oven again. He sweats a little at first, and then stops. He starts getting worried at that – when you stop sweating he knows that means you’re in trouble – usually right before heat stroke.
He decides that it’s time to try the windshield wiper fluid. He can’t wait any longer – if he passes out, he’s dead. He stops in the shade of a large rock, takes the bottl
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