never agreed to such a thing and then we stopped and stared at each other for a while in awkward silence while the rain picked up again.
he decided that he would leave the wood there but asked if he could get a ride down. as we kept driving down the mountain the people in the back called to people on the road and more people ran to get the free ride. i finally had to stop and tell them that if they called for one more person to get in the truck i was going to make everyone get out because the truck bed was almost touching the tires already. 