Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!...It's

Mark the Super Hero???? Well not exactly.

Last night I was getting gas when I heard a woman in the car next to me start yelling. At first I couldn't make it out, but when I turned around, it made sense to me. She was yelling that there was "Nobody in that car. There's nobody in that car!".

Well the reason that she was yelling is that the car next to her car was driving off, all by itself. All of a sudden a woman came out of the store yelling "stop my car. Please! stop my car!"

So I ducked into a phone booth changed into my superhero costume and...wait that's not it.

My adrenaline started flowing, heart rate increased, and the next thing you know I was 10 times my normal size and green...wait, that's not it either.

I closed my eyes really hard and stopped time...while time was stopped I went and put the car in drive...or maybe not...

I twirled around really fast and changed into my superhero costume and was looking for my invisible jet...wait, that really isn't it. I mean, how was I going to see the invisible jet and who wants to see me in a wonder woman costume...I just thought that woman was screaming. Can you imagine the screams if she saw me chasing after her car in a wonder woman costume?

Anyway, I remembered all my marathon training and took off running after her car, dove in through the window and hit the brakes. Well, that might be a little exaggeration. Its more like I jogged after the car, reached in through the window and pulled the parking break right as the car hit a curb (that is the truth).

The lady came out and said "thanks a million". She had left the car running (in Drive) and thought she put the brake on. She was scared that if she put the car in park, it would die and not start up again. I said no problem and went back to filling up the car with gas.

A few minutes later she came back and said that she couldn't get the brake off. My first thought was "great...I have broken her car, now what?" Luckily, I still had some super human strength left and was able to disengage the parking brake. After this I noticed she backed the car back to the pump, left the car running again to put gas in the car.

Moral of the story...It doesn't take a superhero to stop an out of control 1983 Ford Escort...