Defenestrate

Word of the Day Wednesday, March 24, 2010

defenestrate

\dee-FEN-uh-strayt\ , transitive verb;

1. To throw out of a window.

They drove along in silence. The warm summer air blowing in through the rolled down windows of the pick-up truck. The air wasn't cool enough to be refreshing, but it still felt good.

Margaret put her arm outside the window and moved it up and down in the air streaming around them. Kate looked over at her, her cowboy hat tipped back, and smiled. The hills and highway stretched on endlessly in front of them, and even though they were speeding into the future at 75 miles per hour, it left lazy as if they were traveling at a leisurely pace.

It had seemed like a lifetime ago that Kate had reached over and had defenestrated her bag speeding along the highway at 90, yelling at her the entire time. She had demanded that Kate let her out to retrieve her belongings. Everything she had left in the world. Kate had slammed on the brakes, the pick-up fish-tailing as it screeched to a halt and told her that if she got out of the car she would be hitch hiking to Austin.

She had gotten out of the truck anyway, and had watcher her life speed off without her.

It had taken a good hour to collect all the items that had burst out of her bag. In which time Kate had cooled off and returned for her. Things would be better. She knew this because she did not have the imagination to fathom them any worse.