Driving Miss Hazy

"Is this the carpool lane?" Leni asked her older sister Lori after she drove the family van into someone's swimming pool by accident.

It happened while Leni had become distracted while her older sister brother were giving her a driving lesson by looking at her fingernails.

"Look at my nails, I need to get a mani like today," she thought as she gazed at her nails instead of looking at the road. Lori had noticed and turned sideways to scold Leni when she heard Lincoln scream,

"LENI, LOOK OUT," then she looked forward and saw the van heading towards a lamppost. Lori gasped then Leni quickly steered the van to the left of the lamppost but couldn't stop the van as it drove across a lawn then winded up in the swimming pool.

Lori was about to hit her head on the dashboard when Lincoln told them they had to get out of the van. After taking off their shoes they climbed through the windows, then waded towards the lawn. Once the kids were out of the pool, Lori was going to call her mother when a well-dressed couple dashed towards them.

"Are you all right kids?" the lady inquired.

"We're okay," Lori answered.

We just came home and saw the tire tracks on our lawn, how did it happen?" the man then asked.

"We were going for a drive then a squirrel ran across the road. My sister Leni had to avoid hitting it but ended up crashing into your swimming pool," Lori lied.

The couple, noticing the children were damp, invited the children inside their home to dry off.

Sometime later at the Loud residence, Lynn Sr. was watching a baseball game on television when the doorbell rang. Being the only one in the house at the moment, he opened the door and was surprised to see his three children standing there wearing beach towels over their damp clothes.

"What happened to the three of you and who was that leaving?" Lynn Sr. asked with as he noticed the lady's car driving away

Lori spoke first as they entered the house. She told her father the same lie she made up with the couple about how Vanzilla ended up while she and Lincoln were teaching Leni to drive.

"WHAT!" he shouted in disbelief, "Where is Vanzilla?"

Lori replied, "Oh her husband called a tow truck company to take it away. Oh here's a business card," Lori fished in her purse and took out the card. "The lady wrote her phone number on the back of the card if you need to call her."

Lynn Sr. released a sigh, "How am I going to afford to pay this time." He remembered the day his kids destroyed the van by fighting over a seat.

"Don't worry dad," Lincoln spoke, "Mr. and Mrs. Carter said to tell you that they will pay for the repairs."

The three children then rushed upstairs to change.

Five days later, Lori surprised her father by returning home with a newly repaired Vanzilla.