I'm not entirely sure if I understand what's going on but let's try:
After graduating high school, I took a road trip with my friends. We started out on our way to our first destination. Our friend who was driving did not look like himself. When he started to slur his words we realized something wasn't right. "Are you drunk!? It's 11 AM! And you are driving! You want to get arrested? You wanna kill us?"
It took a big argument to get him to finally give up the wheel. As we were arguing he almost hit a pedestrian, actually knocking her purse out of her hand but luckily that was all. I imagined what would have happened if he had actually hit her, we wouldn't have been able to go on our road trip and that poor lady... After that we convinced him to pull over and he slept on my shoulder in the back seat the rest of the ride there.
What gave you difficulty grasping the concept of the contest? I'm very interested to know.
There is actually an earlier koan that dealt with drunk driving, so I'm placing this one under consideration there. This one deals with driving while drowsy. It's a great story though! I'm glad the trip went well, even if it didn't start of great. Thanks for sharing it!
Well I missed the whole contest so I wasn't sure what had been used already, I wasn't sure what his earlier ordeal was, and since it was about traffic I thought he wa sin a car at first but then the whole situation didn't make much sense "grabbing on" etc. hhaha it wasn't a problem with your koan...I was just new to the context.
I totally get it. I've placed it under consideration there though so that it would be graded properly.