I was working for an auto repair facility that repaired your vehicle on the road. My duties were to deliver the parts to the techs that repaired the vehicles. There was a lot of driving involved. I would stop and get gas at my favorite station. There was a girl that worked there that I took a liking to. Her name was Karen. She was about my height with brown hair down below her shoulders. We had chatted a bit and I finally asked her out for dinner. The date went well. She was easy to talk to and I am sure she had a nice time. I told her there was a Bruce Lee movie marathon at a local drive-in. I asked her if she would like to go. She said she thought it would be fun. I had a slight problem. I was 16 years old in New York state. This was a while ago and I could not drive after sunset. This was more years ago than I care to admit. It was a state law. I called a few local police departments to see how early in the morning I could legally drive. After talking to four different police departments the best answer I could get was 5:00 am. The marathon was scheduled to end a 2:30 am. I told Karen the problem that if she went, we could not leave till 5:00 in the morning. She said that would be ok with her. I will admit that I was pretty excited. My vehicle was a green 1968 Renault R10. It was a real chick magnet! It got me around in my early driving years, but not without it’s share of problems. Fortunately I was able to repair it myself. One nice thing about the car was the gas mileage. On the road, it got in excess of 48 mpg. Another nice thing was when the front seats were all the way forward, the seat backs went flat back, even with the rear seat. It was a very comfortable vehicle to go to the drive-in.

I picked her up at her house and we went to the drive-in. We got there before dark. She smuggled a bottle of wine out of her parents house. She said she told her parents she was going to sleep over at a friend’s house. I had to pick her up down the street from her house. I drove us to the drive in. We pushed the seats forward and lowered the seat backs. We poured some wine, got comfortable and waited for the movie to start.