OT: Story time
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rec.outdoors.rv-travel on Sun Feb 8 11:34:14 2026
From Newsgroup: rec.outdoors.rv-travel
Just a little funny about my stupid youth.
Though my mom is old now, I was thinking last night about some of the
cool cars she has had over the years after seeing one of them in a story
of cool cars. When we were all small, pops got her the mini-van of the
day, which back them was a station wagon. I can't remember the make and model, but I do remember it had a huge engine in it and would smoke the
tires with all of us in it. As we got older, dad got her an Olds
Tornado. Again, though front wheel drive, this thing had a monster
engine in it and though us kids didn't know it at the time, was a pretty
damn cool car for a "mom" to be driving the kids around in.
Eventually, like lots of marriages in that era, drinking and womanizing
caused problems and the eventual divorce of the parents. First thing my
mom did was go out and get herself a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with a
6.6 Liter engine. Ridiculous fast. She was out of town one weekend and
being the shithead I was decided I was going to take it out and drive
this thing and she would never know. I drove into the Chicago suburb of Berkeley to a place a friend of mine's dad owned. I'll be damned if I
didn't lock the keys in it and could not get to them. I had the buddy
drive us home and left it in the factory parking lot overnight with the
keys in the ignition, planning on going back in the morning with the
spare set.
When I get there the next day, you guessed it, no damn car. I'm
crapping my pants trying to figure out how first I'm going to explain
why I was driving moms baby, and then explaining where it was. Finally
giving up, I call the police to report it stolen. He explains to me his officers running routine checks in the dangerous area had seen this
brand new car and checking to see what it was doing there in the middle
of the night saw it had the keys in the ignition. They had used their
tools to open it and decided it would be safer in the station parking
lot, and that it was there right now and safely in their possession.
After about 30 years, and now that we all grown up, we told mom this
story and she just laughed. She said it was a good thing she didn't
find out about that one back then or she would have probably broken
several wooden spoons over my ass!
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