My family was taking a trip to Savannah. We were in my mom's Nissan Altima, with my dad driving, my mom in the front passenger seat, and my younger sister and I in the backseat. My sister and I were bored. She had already listened to all her Metallica CDs, and I had forgotten my portable CD player and couldn't read in the car without getting sick.
My dad stopped at a convenience store to buy something to keep me occupied. He said I could get an old Sega portable game system and one game to go with it. Apparently all this stuff was on sale in the convenience store.
My dad and I went inside. The clerk was a greasy guy with a Southern accent so deep it rendered him incomprehensible. My dad found a used Sega system on sale, and he told me to pick out one of the "discount games" that were being stored in the freezer case. I opened the freezer door and found a game called "The Adventures of Pummy Pumpkin." It was in a plastic bag. I shook it, and it sounded more like frozen vegetables than a video game, but I had my dad pay for it anyway.
We got back in the car, and I opened my game. Instead of being a cartridge, it was a bunch of plastic pieces. It wasn't a video game at all, but it kept me occupied as my dad drove.
The sun was going down when my dad stopped at an intersection. The road veered off in two directions. On the right, it was a regular asphalt road that seemed to lead into farmland. On the left, the road was made out of red clay and seemed to lead off into a desert. My dad rolled down the window and talked to someone who was in charge of leading people through the intersection. He (or she? I never saw the person) told my dad to take the clay road. My mom said she wasn't so sure about that. My dad replied by stating that if it didn't lead to Savannah, we'd just turn around and take the asphalt road.
I was highly amused by "The Adventures of Pummy Pumpkin" at this point, so it didn't matter much to me when we reached Savannah as long as I was allowed to continue playing my game.
