Raising the Question
What was your first car?
Like so many of the ‘firsts’ in our lives, our first car is often remembered as something special. Maybe it gave us our first sense of real freedom and possibility, as well as expanding our world beyond our previous borders. Our car also exploded our social lives, allowing us to take friends and family where ever we went. What do you remember about your first car?
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It was a 1962 Ford Anglia (the one with the angled back rear window). It was my baby and holds a lot of memories.
I remember one time I was at the river with my friends practicing my off-road driving through all the mud I could find, acting like typical boys. Once we had finished, as an effort to keep my parents from finding out, I washed the car from top to bottom before they got home, removing all the mud that could be used as evidence against me.
My parents finally returned casually asking me how my afternoon was. I replied with a standard answer that would give no clues to the true events of my afternoon. My parents replied with more casual questions, which in itself seemed suspicious. I cautiously answered with an inkling that something was not right. Finally they revealed that they had been watching me and my friends the whole time from a nearby bridge that overlooked the river.
They had been driving past and happened to notice my car, so they stopped to see if everything was OK. I was busted. Thankfully the punishment was only an afternoon of embarrassment while my folks had their fun with it all. As it turns out, that was enough. I never did it again (that I’m willing to admit at least). LOL.
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