Monday 27 February 2017

Memoir story

I believe I can drive.


I slowly took my foot of the clutch and pushed down on the accelerator.  Then I put the car into first gear...

It was the weekends and I was about to drive our old car that sits on our hill on the front of our property.  My dad has has had it for ages but we have barely used it and now here I was going to drive it.

...The car slowly moved forward and then it went faster and faster until I was going 20 kilometers per hour.  The other side of the paddock was coming up fast so I started to turn but then...     the engine crackled and the car rolled to a stop.

"Dam it"

I had stalled the car.  But I wasn't going to give up so I turned the car on and pushed my foot onto the clutch then slowly I took my foot of and pushed down on the accelerator at the same time.  The car moved forward.  Faster and faster it went and then before I new it I was at the other side of the paddock.  I pushed down on the brack and turned the corner.  Yes I had made it.

So that was how I spent the rest of the afternoon.  Just driving the car back and forward and back and forward until my I got called for dinner.