I will never forget my first________

Pappy said:
Kiss and car. Hard to decide. With the kiss I saw fireworks going off.
The car, I saw money floating away.
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I agree with you, Pappy about the car. My dad would only allow me to buy a car if I had the money to pay for it and the first year’s insurance. I worked and saved every cent I could. I think that’s why I never had a steady girl in high school. I was known for being cheap.

I worked at one of the three local gas stations and in the summer, I picked up a job on the farm. On Thursdays, the local store, which is more like the now known convenience store, received their weekly order. The owner asked me if I wanted the job of stocking the shelves, which took only about 3 hours. They paid me $5.00. I couldn’t turn it down, but I asked if I could do it after I was done at the farm or gas station. The owner trusted me so much that he gave me the key and told me that he didn’t care what time I did it, just as long as when he walked in the store at 6 a.m. Friday, the groceries were put away. I would get home from the farm at about 7, or if I was at the gas station about 9:30 at night and then go stock. Get up Friday morning and go to school. I really wanted that car.

When I finally bought the car, I had to hand over the money. I told the owner that he doesn’t know what I went through to get this money, so hopefully, you’re not selling me a lemon. He looked me in eye and told me that if anything, (and I mean anything), goes wrong with that car in the first 3 months, you bring it to me and I’ll take care of it, unless the mechanic tells me that you were abusing it. I felt better after that because I was really feeling low turning over that money. My dad asked me what’s wrong and I told him that I was just a little down turning over all my money. He said, “It won’t be the last time.” I didn’t know what he meant until I got married and then I said to myself, “Dad was right.”
 
First guitar, well actually it was a electric bass guitar made by Tempo. I bought it with the money I saved from my paper route at the little music store we had in town back then. My older brother needed a bass player for his band and I really wanted to learn to play music and be in a band. Some years later I switched over from bass to playing six string guitar in bands.
 
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my first beer in a pub.
my father took me to a pub at age 16 even though legally had to be 18. He wanted to reward me for my efforts in a game of rugby. It was a big glass almost a pint. I was thirsty and drank it down fast
I became sick the next day and missed school.
 
speech
I was about 22 and a colleague at work talked me into joining toastmasters. I was extremely shy at the time.
My first introductory speech was painfully awkward. It must have been painful to witness and listen to. I dare not look up from my notes. i was in an awful hurry to get it over with.
They threw me in as chairman of a business meeting the following week and i quit Toasties altogether.
 
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