“Hello, you’ve reached the AA. What’s your emergency?”
“Hi. I’ve been space truckin’ for 2000 light years in my interplanetary craft and was about to re-enter Earth’s stratosphere when my thrusters failed.”
“Now I have no control over my craft. I’m eight miles high and floating in a most peculiar way, sort of sideways through time and…”
“Can I just interrupt, Mr. Spaceman? This is the Automobile Association. I think you need the Astroship Association.”
My entry in the December 2022 75 Word Story Challenge at SFFChronicles
Theme: Drifting
Genre: Science Fiction
Another effort incorporating a few references to songs
Space Truckin’ – Deep Purple
2000 Light Years From Home – Rolling Stones
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft – Carpenters
Eight Miles High – Byrds
Space Oddity – David Bowie
Silver Machine – Hawkwind
Mr Spaceman – The Byrds
M. Robert Gibson 