The Adventure of a Timid Man

The Adventure of a Timid Man. The narrow dirt road I followed today was nothing more than a bumpy track, on both sides ugly trees and thorny, evergreen bushes I was trapped in the wilderness of enraged nature. Sun and deep shadows, god knows what lurked in them. Prickly silence, the noise of the scooter unnerved me, switched off the clamour; opaque calm. As a child when we played cowboys and Indians I was forever the redskin; trust me to side with losers. Tractor tracks which meant the road was leading somewhere. I heard grunts in the bushes maybe it was a boar and if it charged I had no defense, not even a folding knife. Whistled a Dixie tune, spoke loudly, the echo of my fear ran up and down the road. I drove on ignoring the imps that grabbed at my shirt trying to hold me back. And there I saw it the asphalted main road, now I had nothing to fear but cars and crazy drivers.