S.o.s

• Jesse Smith
• Short Story
• 2010

“I love my job” I kept saying it over and over in my head. I was at Sydney Airport waiting to get on the plane. The worst thing though was that some people couldn’t control their kid’s. The kids were running round like chooks with their head cut off. Finally I was on the plane but a couple with cheeseburgers and french-fries came onto the plane. Please, please, please don’t sit next to me I was thinking but sure enough they sit either side of me. Now you have to suffer like I did because I’m going to tell you what happened. Oh I forgot to add they were the ugliest creatures on the planet. Munch, munch, munch crunch, crunch, crunch the food was falling out of their mouth like a waterfall. The lady then said, “Pass the sauce.”
The man replied, “Get it yourself you old bag!” So the lady reached over and she was squashing me, my eyeballs were popping out of my head and my face was turning purple.

Thank goodness that ride was over. I was like speedy Gonzales out that plane door. I forgot to say, “I’m going to Hawaii to study the land near the dormant volcano, Jackasaurus Rex. The Island was b-e-a-u-tiful. Now to go study I said. I got up to Jackasaurus Rex and everything started to shake, It can't be its been dormant for four million years, I said. Smoke was flying everywhere. Yes I chanted the top is sealed over. Bang the top went flying off at that second my life flashed before my eyes. My first birthday and first Christmas my first job my graduation and now to reality I’m dead. I got in my car and drove as fast as I could I was probably doing 200km. In my review mirrors I could see lava pouring out of the volcano. I climbed the tallest mountain and yelled out frantically S.O.S S.O.S S.O.S!

I survived but many people didn’t hundreds of people climbed things hoping to survive. I’m never going back to Hawaii again. I quit my job and now I say I hate my job over and over again. Although I get free airfares I almost got killed. Now I’m an accountant making big bucks. Long live Jackaraurus Rex.