A Nightmare Vacation Trip
by Jay Dubya 
During my fifth year of teaching my wife and I had taken a three-day mini-
vacation to West Virginia. We stopped at Harpers Ferry, the sight of John
Brown's raid and a historic landmark rich in Civil War era heritage. Then my
spouse and I proceeded south on scenic Skyline Drive through the Blue Ridge
Mountains to Luray where we had planned to tour the famous underground caverns.
It was getting dark and a heavy mountain fog began settling along the elevated
highway.
I instinctively turned on the headlights to forewarn oncoming traffic of our
presence while nervously holding and blasting my horn around each successive
curve and bend.
"Your headlights are becoming dimmer!" my observant wife related.
"You're right!" I concurred. "And now my horn has the blast of a dying mouse
caught in a trap!"
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