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Bea Carrer's Yes Girl-Personal Narrative

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“Bye auntie I’ll see you Sunday!” I yell out as I disappear through the front door. As I approach my car I hear my aunt call out: “Bye Tanya, drive safe!” Today is my eighteenth birthday. What better way for a new adult to celebrate her new adulthood than drive up the coast for the weekend with my best friends? I can’t think of one. I position myself in the driver’s seat, strap in, and head off on my way to Cherry’s house. As I’m humming along to some 1985, my gas light clicks on and beeps, denoting I’m low on gas. I sigh. “Sorry Cher, looks like I’ll be a little late” I say to myself as I turn off of the street I was following and turn into a gas station to my right. Parking on pump 6, I exit the car and enter the little convenient store …show more content…

I decide to try to tune out my annoyance by turning up Yes Girl by Bea Miller, blasting it through my ears and whipping it around in the California wind, just like my brown hair. I turn in sharply on the next gas station, only this time I’m not the only one here. On pump 8 sits an olive green Jeep Renegade Trailhawk. My mouth drops. I must find the owner of said Jeep while I’m here. This car makes my black Lexus Coup look like crap. As I’m approaching this gas station’s convenience store, I see a man and the person behind the counter in deep conflict. I tenaciously step in and mutter a lousy “excuse me” The men stop arguing and turn their attention to me. The first man I spotted’s face lightens. “Hi there, if you’re looking for gas you’re out of luck!” Before I can comment, the man behind the counter jumps in “Hey man I told you last week it ain’t my fault! I’ve been waiting for my shipment and there’s been nothing!’ “So you’re out of gas too?” I ask in clarification “Yep. Have been for the last 2 weeks unfortunately. But it ain’t just me, a lot of gas stations around here are running out.” He says, sighing and stepping out from behind the

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