Too Early to Go Home and Too Late for Beer

I’m digging a mental tunnel out of this trap.

Too Early to Go Home and Too Late for Beer

Out on 80 between Twenty three and Hope..
At the end of my tank and the end of my rope.
Headlights streaking in the windshield smear.
Too early to go home and  to late to buy beer.

MY adviser says I have no future after school
He drives a Corvette and he slicks back his hair.
He says I do best in some kind of…