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...and forget about automatic transmissions. I drove standards for many years, before I got tired of shifting.
My Dad taught me to drive. He was great!! The first time it snowed he went out with me to see if I knew what I was doing. I passed w/ flying colors. He was so patient. I'm glad I never had to have Bruce teach me!! Lordy..................NO PATIENCE!!!
I got tired of shifting Jerry. The first time I learned to shift it was on the column. I had to teach Bruce to drive a stick. He had never driven one.
Seemed no one ever fixed their cars. You just drove them til they died.
My brother had a car and the whole transmission fell out on the highway to Boston during morning rush hour. It made the news.
Another brother had a truck that wouldn't back up.
My mother had a car that the battery constantly died. I was 10 and using jumper cables to start the car regularly.
My brother had a car and the whole transmission fell out on the highway to Boston during morning rush hour. It made the news.
Another brother had a truck that wouldn't back up.
My mother had a car that the battery constantly died. I was 10 and using jumper cables to start the car regularly.
The traffic around here is so horrible, that all you do is shift, up and down all of the time.
I would hate traffic like that!! Ours isn't too horrid. Gosh Jerry, I thought you lived in a small town.
That was another one, Mary, dead batteries. Used to park on a hill, so I could jump start it. It was easy to do that with a manual transmission, not as easy with an automatic.
I had the hood fly up on one of my junkers, while driving on 295. I had to look out the drivers window to see where I was going. I made it to a junkyard, found another hood, removed the broken hood, put on the new one and away I went. The junk yard owner laughed through the whole thing.
gosh!! I feel fortunate. My first car was a Pinto. I was great! I loved that little car.
It used to be a rural town Norie, but it has grown a lot in the last 40 years. When they ran Route 295 through here, in the 1960s, it was the worst thing that could have happened to us. Now we are more like a suburb of Providence and Boston.
Edit: There are 500 acres of town owned woods near me, that's where I like to go walking and that's what keeps me here. Someday, no doubt they will turn it all into house lots, that's when I will pack my bags and leave.
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Yuck! I wouldn't like that Jerry. I hate traffic and crowds. I prefer the country. If it wasn't for Bruce that's where I would live. The county is the farthest out I could get him.
Pintos were fire hazards. The gas tank was way in the back and if you got rearended, they had a tendency to split and catch on fire.
I'm tired so I'm off to sleep but it's sure been fun thinking about those old clunkers. It's a wonder we all survived without crashing all the time. I even remember a few clunkers catching on fire!
Have a good day tomorrow Nora and Jerry.
Have a good day tomorrow Nora and Jerry.
Goodnight Zelda. Have sweet dreams!
Jerry, you just have to drive fast enough not to get rear-ended!! That car cornered great too!
Jerry, you just have to drive fast enough not to get rear-ended!! That car cornered great too!
Me too, I love the country. I grew up here, when it was still country. When I came back from the Army, there were houses everywhere. The traffic gets worse every year. I don't even enjoy riding my bicycle anymore, because of all the traffic. I wish they had never run that damn highway through this town, it ruined the place.
The freeway outside of Selah actually went right through my aunt and uncles house when they put it in. My uncle was forced into selling his house and property. But I will say that it was needed around here. I would have bought a cabin in the woods to live in and commuted to work but Bruce figures if you can't order pizza delivered it's too far out! What a stick in the mud!!
I'm going to leave too, Norie
, dear. Have a good night and remember, I may not be here tomorrow night. CUL RM
, dear. Have a good night and remember, I may not be here tomorrow night. CUL RM
Goodnight sweet Jerry!
I will miss you tomorrow night if you don't make it here.
Enjoy your dinner sweetie.
!I will miss you tomorrow night if you don't make it here.
Enjoy your dinner sweetie.
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