Car Ride
(Day Twelve)
When my grandparents were dating, back when they both were in high school, my grandpa took my grandma driving one day. As he was turning a corner, the passenger door fell open and dumped my grandma out on the road. She sat there and refused to get up until he came back for her.
That's about the extent of the details I know about that event, but I've always liked to imagine the rest and fill in the gaps. They laugh about it now, but was she upset when it happened? Where were they going? There must not have been other cars around -- they were most likely out on a country road. He was probably driving the 1934 Ford he always talks about. I have no doubt he was driving too fast -- he always drives too fast. Did he feel bad that he knocked his girlfriend out of the car into the road? Did he make up for it later?
My grandparents have been together for 54 years. When you've been together that long, do you even remember your life without each other? I'm not sure I really remember what life was like without Michael, and we've only been together 4.5 years.
When my grandparents were dating, back when they both were in high school, my grandpa took my grandma driving one day. As he was turning a corner, the passenger door fell open and dumped my grandma out on the road. She sat there and refused to get up until he came back for her.
That's about the extent of the details I know about that event, but I've always liked to imagine the rest and fill in the gaps. They laugh about it now, but was she upset when it happened? Where were they going? There must not have been other cars around -- they were most likely out on a country road. He was probably driving the 1934 Ford he always talks about. I have no doubt he was driving too fast -- he always drives too fast. Did he feel bad that he knocked his girlfriend out of the car into the road? Did he make up for it later?
My grandparents have been together for 54 years. When you've been together that long, do you even remember your life without each other? I'm not sure I really remember what life was like without Michael, and we've only been together 4.5 years.