The dusty blue 4-door car
turned into the busy petrol filling station and pulled-up alongside a vacant
pump. The lone occupant put fuel into the tank, then moved and parked the car
over near the car wash before walking back to the cash desk, leaving the doors
unlocked. He paid for the petrol and bought a car wash ticket and a cooling
drink. After only a few minutes he’d returned to his car, entered the program
code and got into the driver’s seat. He started the car engine and drove into
the wet area. The forward and rear shutters came down trapping the car and
driver inside the car wash.
A rope
was suddenly wrapped around his neck and a moment later he began to struggle in
the confined space of the driving position after he realised he was being
attacked. The awareness of shock is never instantaneous.
The clean and dry car with its
full tank of petrol exited the car wash, though now with two occupants.
© Louis Brothnias, v 1.1 (2010)