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Go-Karts Descriptive Writing

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It was a dry summer afternoon before the arrival of fall, and the beginning of a new school year in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. That afternoon few of my friends from Chicago named Marshall, Kevin, Connor and I had been planning to head over to Marshall’s house after school. As the bell sounded at 2:20pm we ran quickly to our lockers, and made it to the buses. All four of us met at Marshall’s house which was tucked in behind the forest preserve along a private road off Quentin road. The conditions were just right for riding around on our dirt bikes and go-karts although at the time 85 degrees was quite warm to us Chicagoans at the end September. As we ran to the garage Connor yelled “I get the go-kart” I heard Kevin shout “I’m driving the gator!” Marshall and I walked towards our dirt bikes. Marshall had burnt the clutch out on his minuscule Honda CRF80 so he hopped …show more content…

I couldn’t hear anything, see anything or feel anything it’s like I was asleep. I can’t remember what it felt like colliding with the go-kart. Probably within a few more seconds my eyes slowly opened and I woke up to my body sliding across the semi-loose gravel/asphalt road. I was able to get up and then a copious amount of swear words were overflowing out of my mouth as I screamed in pain and mostly fear of what had just occurred. My bike was scraped up, and was out of alignment, my hand had been cut up and small stones were lodged in my palms. My face was ripped up and bloody. As far as Connor, the one who caused the accident well he had remained unharmed. With my anger I had managed to get back on my bike and ride to Marshall’s house. As I was cleaning up and bandaging myself up all over Kevin had divulged that he had witnessed everything. He saw my front tire get stopped on the go-kart and watched my body thrown over the handlebars and then nose-diving onto

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