In the woods - anecdote   22 pieces / 16 pieces   

vocabulary: petrol, creepy,  gauge, steer, hedge, cough	

When I was about seventeen I lived in the countryside with my parents.*	
One night I was driving home late after visiting some friends	
It was about two o'clock in the morning and the road was completely empty.	
I was driving through some rather scary woods. 	
The moon was shining through the trees - it looked like a scene from a horror film.*	
Suddenly, the car began to make a strange noise.	
Then it began to slow down.	
I looked at the petrol gauge - I was out of petrol!	
Oh no! I thought. What a place to stop! - right in the middle of these creepy woods.*	
Slowly but surely the car came to a stop. - I managed to steer it off the road.*	
There was nothing to do but walk home. I couldn't call my parents	
and it was about fifteen years before mobile phones were invented!	
I locked the car and started to walk along the strange moonlit road. It was very quiet	
After a little while I came out of the woods and it was a bit lighter.*	
To my left was a high hedge and behind it, I guessed, a field.	
I was beginning to feel a bit happier - I would soon be home - when* 	
suddenly I heard a noise. It was like a very loud deep cough.	
Then I heard something large moving slowly behind the hedge.	
I was very scared. What kind of person would go to a farm field at two o'clock in the morning?	
A mad person? An escaped criminal? My question was soon answered. 	
For the next sound I heard was a loud Mooooooooo! Cows! It was just a field of cows.