My very first car & funny roach story!

Hi everybody!

I hope everyone enjoyed the previous food post. Yesterday as I was cleaning out some junk in my car as I let it warm up I was reminded of this funny story that happened to me a few years ago, and everytime I think about it I almost always laugh , and then cringe.

In 2005, I purchased my first very own car, a very sexy, and chic silver mitsubishi eclipse gt. I fell in love at first sight, it looked gorgeous, it smelled great, it had black leather interior, just like a silver bullet and the best part....it was going to be mine. No more letting my mom take the keys away because she was pissed I came home late. (10 pm...what a joke). I felt it was time to establish my own credit, with no help from nobodys! You guys know what I'm talking about....

I was all hyped up and ready to sit in and do a test drive until I realized, it wa a stick shift. I flashed back to drivers ed, and and though "well that was stupid of them not to teach us to drive stick"! So my mom and sister Jackie came with me to test drive and teach me to drive stick. After much yelling, and stalling out, and maybe even some whiplash mom was not to thrilled at what I was doing, "but I was determined to get this car. So I did. I had my mind set, I passed the credit chck with flying colors, I signed all the paperwork. Now it was the moment of truth, time to proudly drive my first car off the lot. My best friend Dew, and her guy at the time were taking the drive home with me. I put the clutch in and it started it up, and man, o man, it sounded expensive, I could hear everything in the car working together effortlessly, and every sparkplug, and belt, and fluid, was my baby. And then the fear sunk in. Time to put it in drive, and well....drive...

It was buttery smooth, and with dew helping me and telling me which gear goes next it as a success, highway all the way baby, and yeah it did jerk a bit when I was switching gears, but hey for a first time drive off the lot, not bad, and since then I felt like a natural. Before I knew it I was handling the shift through the line on the bridge in Juarez Mexico like a pro. Mom if you are reading this, I swear, it was during the day, and we just went to eat!

Anyways, here's the funny part. About a week after my big purchase I was cruising of course, down country club road on my way home after the gym, with my windows down, blasting some Al Green, I was happy. Beautiful scenery, big trees form almost an arch as you are driving through, lots of flowers, and billowy shrubs. All of a sudden I feel something fly into my car, almost like a twig or a dried leaf or something, it brushed my left cheek and them it was gone. A couple of seconds later, I feel something lightly nudging on my lower back, and of course through my gym wear, it was rather skimpy, so my lower back was exposed. It startled me a bit so I stiffened my back in a jerking movement and thought, "what the hell?", so I ignored it....and then once again but this time I felt crawling so I immediatly pulled over, and got out and looked, and it was sorta dark, but the car lights allowed me to see a little. I looked and it was a friggin roach the size of a jalapeno!!!! Black and brown, and on its back I saw all the ridges on its body...ew. ew. EWW! I panicked and I grabbed some sheets of paper from the trunk and scooped it up,or so I think I did. It was kind of heavy so it fell a few times back on the seat, but finally I got it,I think or I wasn't sure if it might have fallen down to the left where my seat adjusters were, but I think I did get it. It was dark. I went home and was really grossed out and couldn't believe it.

Weeks passed, and I kept envisioning roach eggs, and roach families, and ew.
Months went by, and then 3 years went by. I was married, and already living in Phoenix, az.
One hot sunny afternoon I was driving to the store and I reached for my chapstick, and then I guess the lid slipped out of my fingers and down to the left where my seat adjusters are. I was fishing around feeling for the lid while I was at the light, and I used my pointer and middle finger to pull up the lid since it was so small, and then as I pulled ut up to view I screamed bloody murder!!!! It was a dried, dead, decredpid, petrified, gross, corpse of the roach from years before!!!!! And I Had it in my fingers dangling by one leg!!! I quickly threw it out the window unknowingly along with my chapstick and was horrified at what had just happened!

I could not believe it was in there all this time! Later I told my husband and we laughed about it, and I must have washed my hands 76,543,245 times. And well folks that's my funny roach story. I hoped you enjoyed, and got a laugh out today, if so and I made you smile then I've done my duty for the day.

Gods joy, and blessings to you today :)