MLMM Photo Challenge #459

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The kids were sulking in the back of the truck. Both were hungry and bored.
Seven year old Jamie needed the bathroom, but there was no way he was going to squat on the side of the road.
Jerry gritted his teeth and kept his eyes on the road ahead.
Alice looked at him sideways, and knew ‘that look’.
‘That Look’ meant don’t say a word and don’t even think about it.
The Satnav had long since been switched off.
The mundane voice of ‘At the next roundabout, take the third exit’, and ‘After four hundred yards, turn left’ had not gone down too well when in over ten miles there had been no roundabout and certainly no left turn.
Jerry stared angrily through the windscreen. Even mosquitoes or other bugs were afraid to cross this driver. It was hot, and everyone was bothered.
Alice turned slightly and asked Larry to pass a bottle of water for her and his father.
Larry complied taking one for himself and passing one to Jamie.

Twenty miles on and Jamie was fidgeting. Alice knew they would have to stop and was about to say just that when Jerry sat upright in the drivers seat and yelled ‘There!!’
In the distance were the familiar yellow arches and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Jerry pressed harder on the gas and was so glad there was plenty of places to park.
Their joy was short-lived when they realised there was everywhere to park as the building was abandoned and in mid construction.
Jamie got out of the truck and relieved himself in the parking lot.
‘What?!’ he shouted. ‘Who’s going to see?’
Alice looked at her husband. She knew he wished now he’d listened when she’d said to keep to the old road. He had a new problem now though…….. he was running out of gas.

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