YEARBOOK_1986

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OH NO MY CAR'S BEEN TOWED AGAIN

How

many times has this

happened

to you.

It's been

a

horrible

day.

Somehow you managed to get out of bed and get to school. You didn't want to of course but there's that exam that you stayed up studying for all night so you decide that you might as well take it. The shower's cold so it took you longer than usual so you're late for your first class. So late in fact, that tiiere was only ten minutes left to go when you got there. That was the good part. At twelve o'clock you found that be no you had no money so there would

eating today. This was rapidly followed by a surprise quiz that you had no clue to and then a fascinating stint of work study in the to

until four. At five you proceeded BISC auditorium to take your exam in a near panic. Your stomach sounded a lot like French you imagined the carts taking the

library

aristocracy to the guillotine sounded as they the cobble stones. "I'll be fine," you tell yourself as you decide whetiier you are going to be sick or pass out. Then you're THERE. The exam was rattied

over

about to start and you were in this huge auditorium with orange lights and

lights and you're sitting in every other seat in every other row and any security you might have gotten from a friend was totally shattered. 45 minutes fluorescent

later you

staggered

out into

a

biting

wind.

Where did 1 put my car, you wondered. That was indeed the question of the hour. The commuter lot, that's it. No, that was

full, 1 put it on Flagg's Road. No 1 didn't, that was

full too

so

I put it in the Chaffee lot.

Where did 1 put it? You stopped walking around campus and decided to hide in a

building until you remembered where you left the car for sure. From the seventh floor of Chaffee you yelled, "I've got it!" Indeed, it's in that parking lot behind

warm

Independence

and Greene. In the

fading

light you could be seen hurrying with an arm-load of books and your collar turned up against the wind. You got there and there

was

nothing

but

a

geology

van.

Did

you leave it somewhere else after all? Did you go down behind the Police station? No,

this

was

means

where it

was

only one thing.

last

You

seen

were

and that

Towed. In

and

happy shining were surfing instead of going to class, but, here in Rhode Island your car was in the possession of Bruno, the evil car tower. Was there anything else that could go wrong? You decided that there was nothing else that could possibly go wrong, California the

sun was

students

and looked to see what time it was getting to be. 6:30, the last bus had left URI for the

day. Maybe things only get you've been towed.

worse once

Dawn M.

Wright


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