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

[ishtara.livejournal.com]

My first car that I drove was my parents' 1986 Chev. (can't remember the make, but it was small.) They also had a 1980 that was a boat. I hated driving it because as a new driver, I had a hard time discerning where the sides and front and back end were at all times. Yet, when they went away, they took the newer car, so I had to drive the bigger one. I was usually under strict intructions only to drive it locally and for important things (like picking up my younger brother at activities.)

My first car that I owed was a 1994 Chev Cavalier. It was a beautiful metallic turquoise blue. I called her Aimee. I think it cost me 15,000.

My first accident was in 1989 (I think). I was driving my parents' car and it was raining. I couldn't stop in time at a light and hit the car in front. I did $35 damage to my parents' car. There is a tiny piece of plastic in the side of the headlight that cost $35 to replace.

Since then, I've been hit twice - both the other drivers' faults (in 1997or8 and in 2004). My husband totalled our last car in 2005 when a jaywalking deer stood in the middle of the highway. The deer was a fatality. My husband wasn't hurt.

I endured too many long road trips as a kid. (Ottawa to Vancouver and back again. Ottawa to Florida and back.) The longest I've been on as an adult is the 10 hour driver to southern Pennsylvia. Now that I have children of my own, that trip seems even longer.

Can't think of the rest right now.