I have a feeling that this guy may have spilled his milkshake!

For me it is the memory of sitting on my Dad's knee when I was just about tall enough to reach his knee! Dad would let us ride on his lap when we were little and help him drive. Now, he only let us help him "drive" when we were out on a deserted country road, not on a busy highway. But,I have to say, that the time I spent driving while sitting on his knee, listening as he gave me some very sound driving advise, helped to make me a safer driver. How we all lived through our childhoods back before child-safety car seats, airbags, and child-proof medicine bottle lids I don't know!

I miss the mom and pop stores of my youth, the kind with the penny candy. there was Snyders which was closest down the hill, but the drawback to them was they were of the ethnic variety that was kinda tight with money and they told you to bring back the small paper bag so the next time they wouldn't need to give you another one! Deemers was alittle further down the hill[a steep hill]nice for going down, but if you rode your bike ,pushing it all the way home really stunk! Then there was Clesi's in the other direction. We would stop there on the way home from my friends paper route. They had a really old dog named benny that you couldn't pet or it would snap at you. Stay away from benny. The old lady [ mrs clesi] only spoke german. You dreaded going in there if it was just Mrs. Clesi. You just tried to communicate without words. Not always easy when you were only ten or so. She was the old lady you picture in your mind wearing a skirt, no visable teeth, sagging hose around her feet. Kind of like that character Ruth Buzzy used to play, only older and meaner! She once refused to take the dollar Susan B Anthony coins we tried to pay with. She must have thought us little whippersnappers were trying to pull a fast one on her. Her daughters who were about 60 and actually spoke english were even unable to sway her! Oh ya, they had a four door 62ish impala, blue. The old stores are gone now. Deemers finally closed after turning to sharons and such. Sharon told me that onch the business closed as a store it can,t re-open as one because of a city ordinance about a store in a residential neighbohood.Now we have Wallmart. The kids won't get a German Mrs Clesi and her spinster daughters or a benny. I can see the old lady sitting just inside the screen door that would slam and wake her in her rocking chair, I feel sorry for them.

At least here in the south we have Sonic Drive In's. I know they take credit and ATM card at the order speaker, but they still walk out to the car with your order. The food is typical mass produced crap, but it really does taste better in your car with the local oldies station blaring through the one speaker in the middle of the dash in my 56 Century. I live close to Lubbock TX and just when to the drive in movie on Saturday. Very cool and the price was reasonable. 6.00ea. to get in and burgers, fries, popcorn and coke about 15.00 for both of us. Check out Stars and Stripes Drive In in Lubbock Tx if your in the area. They have a web site.