I Saved Her Spot, They Erased Mine
We've been stuck in traffic on the highway for ten hours during the Fourth of July, and my best friend, Lindsay Lockhart, is so desperate to pee that she bursts into tears. My brother shoves me out of the car and orders me to take her place in the restroom queue at the rest area.
Three hours later, I am finally almost at the front of the queue, only to discover that the car we had left behind is gone. I call all four of them repeatedly before my boyfriend finally sends me their location. Under the scorching sun, I walk two miles along the emergency lane before I finally find them.
When my childhood friend sees me drenched in sweat, he barely bats an eye. He says, "Traffic started moving, a