20 Questions Day Three: What was your first car?

What was your first car? What did you love/hate about it?

My first car was a 1985 black Dodge Lancer, with TURBO. haha I got it around senior year of high school, so around 2001. It was fantastic: the turbo didn’t work, it barely made it up hills and it would stall at red lights and in the middle of driving down the highway. I learned how to throw it into neutral approaching lights to prevent it from stalling.

Around the same time, my mom had a 1988 Ford Escort. I had to drive it to school many, many times when the Lancer wouldn’t start.

During my freshman year of college, my car finally died and the Escort became mine. In a way, they were both my first cars.

This car was two-toned blue and had a black side panel on it from where my mom got into an accident. I used to take it 85 mph on 83 between York and Harrisburg PA, to go to the airport. It barely made hills without a good start. It shook, like crazy shook.

I took the Escort to Missouri with me in 2005, drove it around Missouri and finally sold it after killing the under carriage driving over railroad tracks. We saw that car driving around Joplin all the time, up through when we moved back to the east coast in 2009.

I don’t have pictures of the Lancer – well, I do but they’re in a box somewhere. But, here’s the Escort!

Oh, and I was so cool with my bumper stickers plastered all over the back. 😉

Plus special guest appearance by not-yet husband!

[20 Questions]

1. What age did you learn to ride a bike?
2. Do you remember your first day of kindergarten? What was it like?
3. What was your first car? What did you love/hate about it?
4. Who is/are your hero(es)?
5. What is one of your favorite memories from your childhood?
6. Do you play an instrument? If not, what would you want to play if you could?
7. What’s something on your “bucket list”?
8. What were you like in middle school? What were your clothing/music choices? (Around 12 years old.)
9. What is something adventurous you’d like to do someday?
10. Do you believe in anything “odd” – UFOs, ghosts, horoscopes, superstitions, etc.?
11. What’s something you’re interested in that no one really knows about or no one would really understand?
12. What’s your favorite nostalgic song? What does it remind you of?
13. If you could learn one new skill or pick up a new hobby, what would you like to do?
14. What’s your favorite book? Magazine?
15. What’s your religion/religious beliefs?
16. What are you going to name your children? Or, what are your favorite names in general?
17. Who was your childhood best friend? Do you still keep in touch?
18. Tell us your life philosophy?
19. Tell us a secret talent!
20. Create your own question and answer it!

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