Chapter 2: You Have to be Cruel to be Kind Summary

There was a new house, followed by a new job and a car. Tod and he were at the hospital when the paramedics suddenly drove them to an accident scene. A policeman put Tod in a vehicle. There were people staring. Suddenly, Tod stomped his foot on the brake and the car lurched off of the fire hydrant it had been perched on and went backwards down the street. Later, a man was telling Tod his "driving days were over." He had started driving more since then, however. Strangely, the car had five reverse gears and one forward gear (marked "R"). Tod always looked where he came from, instead of where he was going, when he drove. It seemed dangerous, but it worked. They drove often to...