Because there was always some kind of “situation,” Pete took his time returning to Motor World. When he got there, he saw a woman behind the wheel of a go-kart with what looked like a scarf wrapped around her face. She clearly had no control of the vehicle, smashed through a chain-link fence, and was careening toward pedestrians, who screamed and jumped out of the way. Unable to slow down, she headed directly for Pete. To avoid being run over, Pete stepped to the side—“like a matador,” he said—and jumped on top of the go-kart. The woman drove through another section of fencing, smashing Pete’s
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