My MG Midget screamed around the curves of the mountain road. I had the top down and the wind was whipping through my sandy hair. My blue eyes sparkled in enjoyment through my sunglasses as my hands deftly moved from the gear shift to the steering wheel and back again. I was having the time of my life on a deserted stretch of mountain road covered with pine and scrub oak. On one side, behind the guardrail, was a drop-off of several hundred feet and on the other was a wall of granite that rose above the treetops.
I was alone in the car and really didn't care if I hit the granite wall or went through the guardrail. I had lost my wife to a crippling neurological disease just the previous month and with her went my will to continue to live. As a result, I was definitely "pushing the envelope" trying to see just how far I could push the Midget beforea I lost control and it took me on one last ride to oblivion.
I came around a curve and into a long straight stretch. As I pushed the accelerator, I noticed a car in the road ahead and touched the brakes instead. My Midget rolled to a stop just behind the car that apparently had broken down. I threw on my emergency blinkers and got out of the Midget.
There was a pretty middle-aged woman sitting on a rock next to the car. As she rose from the rock and started towards me, I noticed that she was dressed conservatively in a white blouse and a pair of dark blue shorts. As she walked over towards me, I noticed that she had red hair tied up in a ponytail that fell towards her waist. Being still counted among the living, I also noticed that while her figure wasn't the greatest, it would turn more than a few heads. She must have stood about a litle over five feet tall and I couldn't begin to see any extra weight on her unless it was all located in two of the most amazing breasts I had ever seen on such a small woman. While my mind chastised my cock, it grew to half hard.
I walked over to the woman and asked "What seems to be the problem?"
"I don't know. It just stopped dead in the middle of the road for no reason."
"It didn't warn you?"
"No, just stopped."
I climbed out of my Midget and walked over to the car. It was an older model Buick Skyhawk that had definitely seen better days.
"May I?" I asked as I opened the driver's side door.
"Be my guest. I've tried everything I could think of. You're the first person that I've seen since this happened and it's been over two hours now."
I turned on the ignition and got absolutely nothing, no clicking, no nothing. I blew the horn and it worked. I turned on the lights and they worked. The electrical gauges on the dash all worked. The gas gauge showed well over half a tank of gasoline. Puzzled, I got back out and lifted the hood. Everything seemed in order there as well. Then, as I took my head from under the hood, I happened to notice that there was some sort of rubber belt lying in the roadway. I reached down and picked it up. The inisde had small rubber cogs and I knew instantly what had happened. Her Buick had lost its timing belt. This car was going nowhere anytime soon except with the aid of a tow truck.
"Lady..."
"My name's Fiona."
"Uh, Fiona, I know why your car won't run and it's really very simple. You lost the timing belt somewhere. This seems to be a piece of it."
"What's yours?"
"What's my what?" I asked confused.
"What's your name."
"Richard, but everybody calls me Dick."
"I can see why" Fiona said looking at the now very obvious bulge in the front of my shorts.
"Oh I am so very sorry. I don't know what came over me."
"Don't worry about it. I'm flattered that I can still do that to a man. For the last year Harry was alive--Harry is, was, my husband--he couldn't get an erection. He died three months ago of prostate cancer that spread to his brain before it killed him."
"I'm so sorry."
"Well, at least you have a wife waiting for you" she remarked as she looked at the ring finger of my left hand where I still wore my wedding band.
"No, I'm afraid I don't. My wife died a month ago. I just haven't had the need to take the ring off my finger."
"Now it's my turn to be sorry."
"Well, let's see if we can push this car off the road so nobody will hit it. You steer, I'll push." She aimed the car for a wide spot of the shoulder and I pushed from the trunk lid until the wheels were well clear of the roadway.
"Lonely stretch of road."
"Sure is. Except for you I haven't seen anybody or anything for hours. What are we going to do now?"
"Well, I have my cell phone..."
"I've been telling myself to get one of those things. Maybe I will now."
"Yes, well, let me see if I can get hold of my automobile club for tow service." I dialed the number from the card in my wallet, but never got a ring. I hung up and opened the phone to try again when I noticed that I had no signal. "Ohhhhh, boy!"
"What's the matter?"
"No signal. We must be in a dead spot between these mountains."
"What do we do now?"