On My Son's Test Day, He Took Someone Else

Synopsis

On the day of my son's road test, my husband took his ex-wife's daughter instead. He moved the appointment up three days and did not tell me. I was under my father's truck with a bolt half-turned, the one you are not allowed to rush. This was not the first time he decided something was easier without me in the room. It is the first time it cost a thing that only happens once. By the time I came out from under it, my son already had the licence in his hand, and he was happy. Nobody in that house knows why I have not driven that truck in twenty-six years.