Monday, November 07, 2005

And it wasn't just chopper-related incidents...

Toreno wanted me to hijack a semi-trailer. In order to do this, I had to engage the help of Cesar, who had the dubious task of doing the actual hijacking.

Do you know how hard it is to maintain the correct speed and distance from a semi-trailer so your sister's boyfriend can hop onto the rig? Meanwhile, while this is happening, the rig is swerving from side to side and throwing taxis and other vehicles into your path? And, just to throw me off a little more, Cesar was yelling in my ear the whole time, sounding a whole lot like that crazy Catalina.

(Sidebar: Catalina, by the way, has taken to prank-calling me at random intervals. It's rather hilarious!)

Anyway, Cesar and I managed to hijack the rig... Only for me to lose the cargo, trying to turn the damn thing around. After 5 minutes of trying to re-attach the load as well as being dragged out of the cab by other angry drivers who I'm holding up on the freeway (it was like Rodney King all over again), I had to restart the game.

The second time that we managed to hijack the rig, I was nearly home-free... and I lost the rig again. Because I was virtually 5 metres from the finally checkpoint, I had no choice but to manouevre around tediously until I re-attached the trailer. And just to make things worse, my engine had started smoking. (A smoking engine soon turns into an exploding vehicle.)

I did, however, note that once I made it to the checkpoint, in the cut scene, Cesar took all the glory and parked the rig in the garage.

Dumb jerk.

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