Write On: The Race Track

by Evan Peppel, College English 12, Mrs. Didrikson

It is a place like no other, a place where strangers become friends and friends become family. A bad day here is still much better than a good day at school, although it may not feel like it sometimes. Here, despite the frigid temperatures, the tempers can still flare. With plowed up snow banks that make all the trucks and trailers become confined, it seems that some cannot wait to get out. The crews spend many hours here waiting for their drivers. When they do come it is like rush hour on Friday. This is the race track and it does not matter...