06-29-2009, 11:55 AM
Not in order, just listed.
1. Taking a 3-week vacation touring the country when I was 10 and my brother was 8. After the initial 4 days of driving and staying at KOA's, we saw Carlsbad Caverns, the Gilla Cliff Dwellings, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Petrified Forest, Grand Tetons, and lots more.
2. When I turned 12 my dad took me out to Montana to hunt antelope. We spent days tracking them and trying to get close. When we finally crawled over a ridge and saw a herd my dad laid down on the cactus-covered ground so I could rest my rifle on his back. He even held his breath for almost a minute.
3. Nothing tops when I finally got my horse. Even more so than first seeing her, first laying my hand on her teddy-bear winter fur-covered neck, and riding her for the first time, my parents, who were on principal anti-horse, bought me a gorgeous leather halter and lead the day my trainer and I went to pick her up. That meant a lot to me.
4. After months of helping my father and uncle restore my first car ('83 turbo Volvo), I took it out solo for the first time. Apparently during the drive an air hose became unattached and the car would stall if I let off the gas. I pulled up at a stop light next to a guy in his mid-40's in a corvette. I wasn't looking at him or anything but I kept revving the engine to keep it from stalling. He looked over at me and thought I was trying to instigate him. He then mocked me and yelled that my car was a peice of S. At that point the light turned green and I proved him wrong. He had to stare at my bumper for the next 5 miles of one-lane road.
5. Attaching my crazy lab/husky mix to our sled and having her pull my brother and I down the hill in our yard at 90mph and then leaping through the fence that exploded the sled and seeing red plastic all over the yard.
1. Taking a 3-week vacation touring the country when I was 10 and my brother was 8. After the initial 4 days of driving and staying at KOA's, we saw Carlsbad Caverns, the Gilla Cliff Dwellings, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Petrified Forest, Grand Tetons, and lots more.
2. When I turned 12 my dad took me out to Montana to hunt antelope. We spent days tracking them and trying to get close. When we finally crawled over a ridge and saw a herd my dad laid down on the cactus-covered ground so I could rest my rifle on his back. He even held his breath for almost a minute.
3. Nothing tops when I finally got my horse. Even more so than first seeing her, first laying my hand on her teddy-bear winter fur-covered neck, and riding her for the first time, my parents, who were on principal anti-horse, bought me a gorgeous leather halter and lead the day my trainer and I went to pick her up. That meant a lot to me.
4. After months of helping my father and uncle restore my first car ('83 turbo Volvo), I took it out solo for the first time. Apparently during the drive an air hose became unattached and the car would stall if I let off the gas. I pulled up at a stop light next to a guy in his mid-40's in a corvette. I wasn't looking at him or anything but I kept revving the engine to keep it from stalling. He looked over at me and thought I was trying to instigate him. He then mocked me and yelled that my car was a peice of S. At that point the light turned green and I proved him wrong. He had to stare at my bumper for the next 5 miles of one-lane road.
5. Attaching my crazy lab/husky mix to our sled and having her pull my brother and I down the hill in our yard at 90mph and then leaping through the fence that exploded the sled and seeing red plastic all over the yard.
Humans are not rational beings, they are rationalizing
Practice safe sex, do it in a Volvo ___________ "Shut up", he explained.