I really hate new road construction

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I really hate new road construction, especially the stuff going on around me. The town I live in has a new highway. Actually, it's the same old highway but with bridges and extensions built onto it. It looks like one of those toy racetracks with the loops and curves suspended above the ground. My family and I found ourselves on it recently. We were coming home from my aunt's house and had to take the highway because the backroads were closed, there were several houses on fire and the fire department closed off all traffic. So there we were, each of us nervous in our own right. We don't usually take the highway, and hadn't been on this one since before the construction. Mix in the fact that it was night, and we were terrified we wouldn't see the exit that would take us back home. The exits were further apart than they once were as well, and so we actually did end up missing our exit. I was having trouble breathing in the backseat, my seatbelt off and my body stretched towards the center console. My eyes were strained just trying to look for road signs, but by the time I saw another, it was too late. My cellphone was dead, so I couldn't use the maps, if they would even work on this new highway. I was sure we were in another county by the time the relative, sitting in the front seat, told me that he had a car charger in the glovebox. I demanded he get it out while I yanked my phone from my pocket. Three minutes later it was charging and I had the map up. "Stop touching the screen" I slapped his hand away and restarted the map, making sure noone touched it. I could see on the screen that we had, infact, crossed the county border. "I've never been to this county, have either of you?" My companions shook their head, the driver with his hands gripped to the steering wheel. He suggested we just pull over for the night, but I thought that was a horrible idea. I was outvoted, however, and a few minutes later we were sitting on the side of the highway that had turned into two lanes. "Let me go on the record and say that I think this is a stupid idea." Neither of them seemed to care, and a few minutes passed before they were both asleep. A half an hour later and three cars were parked around our own. There was no getting out of this situation. .... Then I woke up, but not before being taken hostage.