The True Importance Money was never easy to come by in my family. Nevertheless there was a goal that I could not let go of. A 1985 jeep wrangler with a smooth red all the way around. The best part she was manual. I had just recently learned how to function a stick shift, and fell in love. The slight absences of noise as you shift into a higher gear was beyond satisfying to me. To make this dream reality I sold around 450 hours of my life to a small italian restaurant as a line cook. While the skills learned there will last me a lifetime. Those hours were not the easiest to tolerate. More than half of the kitchen staff would lounge near the rear entrance getting stoned. Leaving the few that actually worked to do everything. The day had finally arrived me, my mother, and uncle stevie, were to take an hour trip north to purchase my dream car. Well one of my dream cars. The ride was quiet, I mostly played on my phone. …show more content…
My uncle and I took it out for a test drive. He goes on to point minor problems out to me as I drive. Then later to the husky man trying to sell us his old jeep. Which he had given to his daughter once but she declines for the sole reason “she couldn't figure out stick.” He stayed strong on his asking price of $4,000. That is until my mother pulled the oldest trick in the book, she shook his hand and told him goodbye. As we proceeded toward my mother's mini van he calls out to her and reluctantly accept our offer, five hundred dollars short of what he originally asked. Never in my life have i seen that work excluding on tv. Regardless I pay the man he hand me the title then keys. Only thing left was to drive my newly aquired dream car home. My mom and uncle go ahead with plans to meet me at my grandparents. While I swing by my girlfriend laurens. She wanted to see my jeep then come over to spend some time together. I made pizza rolls at her house before we left to have for the