I don't know if this goes here,

[sharps]

But, meh.

Anyway I just thought I would tell you the story about my first car.
My dad has a small electrical company on the side.
He lives in deep rural Iowa, and the closest town is about a 15 - 20 minute drive.

So, the days he is doing his side, work I would be at our place by myself. Being fifteen I had already bought my first vehicle in a bit of a haste, fifty bucks for a 1994 Ford Explorer.

The guy who had it before me used it as a winter vehcile, and it showed.
He had hit a deer, and put another door on it, only the new door didn't have a window. There was no grill. And all the door panels and interior had been taken off to get his nice stereo equipment out of there.

I would spend my sunday afternoons, snapping panels on, or finishing the make shift grill made out of old rubber hoses and pieces of muffler off of my dad's junker vehciles.

One day my dad told me I could go drive around the area, as long as I was safe. Immidately I ran down the road, and got my friend.
We got a boombox put some batteries in it and we were set. We drove around for about four hours, visiting old friends who had switched to the parochial schools.

It was about five o clock, and I dropped my friend off and came home. My dad was home already. He told me he left his keys to his shed at the work site, and asked me to go get them.

For some reason or another I though okay, why don't I take my dad's little car. I did. I drove down, and took a wrong turn, and I went to pull into a dirt lane, and turn around.

Come to my surprise, the dirt lane was just muck. The car hit it, and slipped down on to a cement culvert.

I didnt think much harm was, and niether did my dad, until he drove it, and apparently it jarred the frame so badly, it started sucking dust to the point where my dad could no longer drive it.

So he junked it. Then sold my explorer for money to buy him a new vehicle.

It sucked.

I just aquired for a free a 1987 Chevy Celebrity. It has hit two deer and the air conditioning is out. My parents promised me they were going to buy me a car after three months of taking care of things on my own. Until then, it will be hot and sucky for me.

[re-tired]

Now thats character building. And i thought i had it rough hiking 6 miles to school. Uphill........Both Ways.............In the snow .And that was in rural Fla

[FuntKlakow]

Wow, that is cool!
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