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
(July 2010)