The Gremlin: 5-minute freewrite Day 1201 Prompt: replace that old standard by scribblingramma

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hive-161155 · @scribblingramma · Jan 28 '21

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The Gremlin: 5-minute freewrite Day 1201 Prompt: replace that old standard

My first car was a 1981 AMC Gremlin. It had a manual transmission, "three on the tree." I bought it from a former schoolmate, because 1) I needed a car, and 2) I felt like I needed to pay cash for it. And I had the $500 he wanted for it. I had never driven a manual transmission car, and assumed I'd get the hang of it. But I never really did. My brother-in-law and my dad both tried to teach me, but it just didn't seem to sink in. We finally loaded it up with my belongings and my dad helped me drive it to my first teaching job halfway across the state. (And it was a big state.) My mother followed along in their automatic-transmission car, the one I was used to driving. Part way there, I tried to shift down when taking an exit ramp, and I broke something in its innards. We had to take it to a repair shop and were a day late reaching my destination.

I struggled along with that car for about two and a half months. One of the tires kept going flat, so I was always stopping at the local garage for help. I was terrified of driving up a hill, for fear I'd have to stop and wouldn't be able to get going again. I killed the engine regularly. Sometimes I couldn't get it into reverse at all.

Finally, I realized I was getting a monthly paycheck and could afford to make car payments. It was time to *replace that old standard* shift vehicle with something I could drive with confidence. My dad rode the bus to where I was living and helped me drive my Gremlin back to my hometown, where he and my mom had already done some looking at cars, to save time. I bought a brand new 1981 Dodge Colt, which I absolutely loved, and had for 17 years.

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@carolkean · Jan 28 '21

You remind me of my dad telling his five daughters, "Girls don't have the feel of the wheel." Two of us did learn to drive a stick shift, but I was not one of them. It isn't rocket science. Anyone can do it. Right? Right??? Dad was not a patient teacher, and I never asked anyone else to show me how. You have my vote for giving up and getting a car you were comfortable driving. That road trip - yikes! - it sets my teeth on edge! A day late, due to repairs necessitated by shifting incorrectly? Now I'm reminded of another thing my dad always said: "School teachers and engineers are the stupidest people around." My degree is in teaching, and I married an (electrical) engineer. Who, by the way, is many leagues smarter than my dad. Thank you for sharing this! You are not alone, and now I feel a little bit less alone. :)

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@scribblingramma · Jan 28 '21

Ha ha! Glad to be of service!

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@cliffagreen · Jan 28 '21

$500 in 1981 was a chunk of money, and it sounds like a money pit. I gave up driving ten years ago, in part to avoid the hassle of fixing or paying to fix an old beater. I like the way you used the prompt, both the topic and the way you wove it into your sentence.

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@scribblingramma · Jan 28 '21

Thank you for reading and commenting. That old car popped into my head when I saw the prompt, and i figured I could make it work.

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@scribblingramma · Jan 28 '21

Thank you!

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@hlezama · Jan 30 '21

Great freewrite.
Driving manual transmission cars was a rite of passage in my country, even in remote rural towns like the one I grew up in.
I must be one of the few males who never learned (yep, it was very rare back then to see a woman driving, even a motorcycle).
The only time I had cars was during my grad school days in the States, two of them, both automatic.
We can't buy cars in Venezuela now, so I know I may die without ever passing that rite. Not that I care much about it. I find the whole choreography pretty annoying :)

👍 scribblingramma

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@scribblingramma · Jan 31 '21

> I find the whole choreography pretty annoying :)

Ha ha ha! I love the way you put that!

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@myjob · Jan 28 '21

I don't think I ever had a car that lasted that long. I was ok driving a stick shift if the shifter was not on the steering column, I could never get it right on there. When my kids started driving, my cars did not last long, one got rear-ended by a semi and another the oil light came on and the child kept driving. Not that I blame her, it was night and she was going through a bad area and did not stop until the car did.

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@scribblingramma · Jan 28 '21

That was the first and only car I bought brand new, and that's probably why it lasted so long. Even after we had three children and a Suburban in which to transport them and their friends, we still squeezed into the Colt when we were going somewhere where the parking would be tight. I could always find a spot to tuck it into.

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@myjob · Jan 29 '21

There are good things about having a small car. I have never owned a new car. I have never even made payments on a used one.

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@owasco · Jan 28 '21

A Gremlin!!! hahahahaha! I can see this. 
Then a Colt. 17 years is not too shabby! 
Love this freewrite.

👍 scribblingramma

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@scribblingramma · Jan 28 '21

That Gremlin really was a miserable vehicle.

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