Monday, December 13, 2010

Why is my son so much like my brothers?

When we grew up my older and younger brothers always had cars in the yard they were "fixin" up to drive.  They didn't ever sell cars and the worse they looked the more cool they thought they were.  For some reason these Emmerich guys think junk cars, trucks, vans.... with graffiti, stickers, and bad paint jobs are chick magnets and they must fix them up to get them back on the road for cruzin.   My brothers would run these vehicles around the field if they weren't fit for roads.  One day John and I went over to Mom and Dad's and Wally had an old truck and John has his "sticker car", yes I said sticker car, he had a big ole' boat that he covered in bumper stickers.... guess Adam might not get all his car junkin' from my brothers :)

Well Wally and John drove around in the field until they found lots of mud, they were having fun until....... MOM IS HOME.  While both grown men (Wally and John) stood there, tails between their legs, ready to be scolded, but were very much surprised.... she made them both take her for a ride around the mud track.  She was just a hollering and screaming through the whole ride.  Begging to go again.....


Anyway back to the car in question..... We all remember Adam's car, it was a much talked about vehicle by kids, adults, teachers, police... until the day he bought his truck then the car became a vehicle to attach any odd looking part to it, make it really loud, soup up the exhaust stacks coming out the trunk just to ride back and forth to the woods...... until now.  For some reason, could be the Emmerich in him, he insists that he get this beast back on the road (legally).  First thing was the windshield that had a 3 foot hole in it, Check.  Next seal up the exhaust so he can keep the windows closed, Check.  Remove some of the graffiti...... Looks like he might be able to work on it again around spring.


1 comment:

Lynn said...

Hahahahahaa! Was totally not expecting that! But that kid might end up determined to dig that sucker out!