Blowing Up The Van

I really love Wednesday nights at Acteens. Hanging out with Sydni, Maria, Megan, and now Alizabeth and Ashley and Morgan really makes me happy. We're doing service projects, and last night we were going to start Alizabeth's project at the Valley Crisis Pregnancy Center. So we had to take the Root's van because there were so many people that night. And Ms. Janelle is driving. Dun dun dun...

So we pile into the van and start going down the road. Ms. Janelle has never driven their van before, but we're goin pretty fast. Soon we start smelling something really gross. We think nothing of it and start teasing Sydni about her stinky brothers (she has like a million brothers), and she was all, "No, my brothers smell like B.O. This is like oil or somthing." So Maria starts blaming Megan, and we're all laughing and having a good time, besides the fact that the smell is getting worse and making us gag. Then all of a sudden we hear a voice:

"Um, guys, why is the van smoking?"

So then Sydni realizes that Ms. Janelle drove her van for 5 miles with the emergency brake on!!

Chaos breaks out! Smoke is literally pouring out from under the van! Ms. Janelle pulls into someone's drive way and we just sit there for a minute, until Megan is all, "OH MY GOSH! THE VAN IS GOING TO BLOW UP! EVERYONE RUN!!!!!" And she tears open the door, jumps out and sprints away. We all sit there for a second and follow. So there we were, 5 miles from church, with 7 girls and 1 chaperone, not knowing if the car is safe to drive, and with no one home in the house whose driveway we pulled into.

I had the Root's camera, so, of course, we all took pictures by the van, holding our noses and everything because it REEKED of burning brakes. No joke. And it was still smoking. So after like 10 minutes, we decide it is okay to go back to the church, so we get back into the van and leave, and it was super funny.

We kept laughing, and of course, when we got back to the church, we told like everyone what had happened.

Praise God the van didn't blow up!