A modern day Greek Tragedy

Keep in mind while you are reading this, that I actually turned this in for a school assignment.

It was 7:00 in the morning on the 8^th birthday of young Jimmy. He was quite excited about it. His father however was less excited, because he just realized that he had forgotten to get Jimmy a present. Instead he had been out drinking the night before with no regard as to the time and had, in fact, only gotten back three hours ago. You see, Jimmy’s father was a battle scarred cop with years of experience and only 3 days left until retirement. He said to young Jimmy, “I am terribly sorry, but I forgot about your birthday. Let me make it up to you, Today, I swear on the river Styx that I will grant you any request you have of me.”(You see, ever since Jimmy’s mother died his father had become very superstitious and started to believe all the Greek legends that he had read when he was younger.)  Jimmy promptly replied, “I wanna drive the car!”  Even through the father’s alcohol-impaired judgment, he saw what a foolish idea it had been to grant the passing whim of a young boy. But because of the father’s superstitions, he could not conceive of breaking a promise that had been made on the river Styx. He tried to reason with the boy, “Son, you are simply not old enough to drive. There are many dangers inherent to driving the car.” But his plea fell on decidedly deaf ears as young Jimmy imagined the splendor of driving his father’s shiny red Lexus.  Because of the massive amount of alcohol in the father’s system, and a rather potent mix of superstition and stupidity, the father decided he had no choice but to grant young Jimmy his foolish request. With glee, young Jimmy leaped into the driver’s seat and started the car.  The first of casualties of Jimmy’s rampage were two small chipmunks that attempted to flee the scene by means of the same lawn that Jimmy had decided to use for his exit of the driveway. Young Jimmy soon realized his folly in the request he had made, as he realized the vehicle was not as easy to command as he thought. Unfortunately by this point it was going at quite dangerous speeds and he had no choice, but to attempt to maneuver it through the oncoming traffic. As his father lay curled up into a ball in the passenger’s seat begging Zeus to deliver them, the roar of an oncoming semi frighten the passengers of the doomed Lexus even more. The resulting explosion made the 6:00 news that day as police were baffled by the fact that the wreckage seemed to imply that young Jimmy was driving.