I awoke to my mother poking at me; her words seemed miles away. Nothing short of an atomic explosion was going to wake me up. Even so, I could hear her saying that I needed to get up and go to my grandmother’s house. This seemed unusual at ten o’ clock in the morning. Usually I would be sleeping until at least noon. Of course, I immediately asked why I was going to my grandmother’s house at such an early hour. When my mom told me that my grandma wanted to look at cars with me, I leapt out of bed.
My eighteenth birthday was in two days. As soon as my mom said the words “grandma†and “new car†in the same sentence, I knew that I was going to have a great birthday. I rushed through my morning shower and started up my 1993 Geo Prizm as soon as possible. I was way too excited to take my time. I could only imagine the feeling of pride of owning a brand new car. As the car warmed up, I wondered where my grandma and I were going to look at cars. Then I remembered that my grandfather used to wor
It didn’t take too long before a salesman approached us. Before he could begin his car sales techniques, I told him that I wanted to drive a cavalier with a five speed manual transmission.( I refuse to drive automatics). He then informed me that he didn’t think that they had any five speed cavaliers on the lot. After a while, he pulled up in a nice looking blue Cavalier that had every option on it! He got out of the car and told me and my grandmother that this was the only five speed left. This was great news to me not only because I wouldn’t have to wait for them to order a car, but also because love the color blue and because I knew that I was going to get the top of the line model along with the better engine.