have a car memory you'd like to share ?

[dancingleaf]

EDIT TO ADD: The following are just meant to inspire stories... please don't feel you need to answer ALL of them. Unless you want to... in which case... feel free!

my first car
my favourite car
my first or worst accident
fatalities
a long road trip
a family association
cops/tickets
drive in movies
drive up restaurants,
drive through
price of gas ($.25 a gallon anyone?)
price of cars
buying a car
breakdowns
changing a tire (being late for your wedding because you had a flat tire?)
bad weather
romance
restoration project

don't drive?
-bicycle, bus, train or plane?
-friend's car?
-experiences hitch-hiking?

if you can - please include the year and make of the vehicle and the year of the event.

Or... if you have some other transportation memory you'd like to share....

be warned - particularly excellent stories may make it into my paper/presentation

Comments

[dancingleaf.livejournal.com]

wow-

I didn't mean for you to answer ALL of them. Just any one that particularly stood out in your memory. But thanks for the awesome answers.

ex. My dad had a flat tire on the way to my parent's wedding and was late... my mom's stepdad was a real doll and told her to face facts she'd been stood up, she was crying her eyes out when he finally showed up.

for family association- My granddad drove from Saskatchewan to Ontario on an Indian Motorcycle in the 1930's. He'd a kept going except the bike broke down. He got a job on a farm to make money to eat and met my grandmother etc.etc.... Where would I be if the bike hadn't broken down?