🔵 By Keith David Houston. Photo by lauragrafie.
It was a full moon on new year’s eve at a shell gas station, and after hours of filling gas tanks, checking everyone’s oil, and dealing with all of the excited customers all night things were about to get very crazy in this small town. The gas station manager Sam Wheeler had noticed a young Mexican acting very suspicious outside of the gas station for about an hour, and the Mexican boy had walked by about four times, stopping, looking around, and then walking away only to keep coming back, so Sam knew the boy was up to no good since things had slowed down at 11:30 om, and Sam was ready even though he was very nervous about the situation.
It was quiet as a graveyard, and Sam saw a young woman drive up to one of the gas pumps in a candy apple red Corvette, and out of nowhere the Mexican boy ran to the woman’s car from where he had hid around the corner of the gas station, and the Mexican boy pulled out a large silver hand gun and yelled “give me your purse and all of your jewelry.”
Sam quickly and silently came out of the gas station intent on ending the robbery with a fast karate chop to the boys’ neck, but the boy saw Sam’s reflection in the car window and spun around running to the other side of the woman’s Corvette in an attempt to rob, and kidnap her. Sam however was not going to let that happen to the woman even if he had to die to stop this Mexican boy. The Mexican boy did not realize what he had got himself into and he started shooting at Sam who was swiftly dodging bullets and before the boy fired the fourth bullet Sam was next to him so fast that he did not see the two blows that Sam delivered with lightning speed to disarm the boy, and knock him out.
The woman was in shock and scared half to death when she ran into Sam’s arms crying, she said, “I have never seen anything like that in my life! Who are you Bruce Lee?” Sam laughed and said, “I don’t think so Lady. I am just an ordinary guy working at a gas station, and the woman said, “No Mister, you are not, you saved my life and you are a hero, there is no doubt about that!” At that point Sam saw the Mexican boy trying to reach for his gun just feet from where he had dropped him, and Sam once again, lightning-fast, hit the boy, rendering him unconscious.
The woman said, “Are you sure you’re not Bruce Lee? You sure do look and act like him!” At that time Sam saw the Sheriff drive up, and after hearing the woman’s story and then Sam’s, the Sheriff handcuffed the Mexican boy, and Sam helped him get him into his car. The Mexican boy promised to get Sam who just ignored him since he knew the boy would never be free again to do that to anyone else, and Sam was right, because the boy ended up in prison for life. The boy made his choice, and there is always a point of no return you cannot come back from. The End.