My 7 Best Childhood Memories

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The challenge is on to tell everyone what are our 7 best childhood memories. I have to do some deep thinking, but I think I have narrowed mine down to these. 1 – The year I was 5 my dad had an old pick-up truck he was working on. The transmission went out in the truck and he had to put a new one in. I would spend all day in the driveway with my dad working on this truck. He would pick me up by my feet and put me down inside the motor of the car. There I would hold the wrench while he climbed under the car to tighten the bolt. The transmission was up on the jack and we were both under the car. The jack slipped and all the red transmission fluid came pouring down on my dad and me. I was laughing so hard, but not my dad. I took the fluid and started to draw all over my dad. In the end my mom had a fit because my hair was filled with transmission fluid. She wanted to cut all my hair off but my dad refused. He cleaned me up and spent 2 hours combing the knots out of my hair. 2 – My dad and I use to make rubber band guns and have fights in the garage after dinner. One time my dad challenged me to a fight. He did not tell me he had made a 6-shooter. I was stung one time after another when he fired them all at me. Afterwards he made me one and we spent the night in the garage having rubber band gun fights. Then my mom found out we were using all of her wooden clothes pins to repair our guns with. We each had 4 guns of 12 rubber bands each to fight with. My mom stopped our fighting this night. But my dad came in from work the next day with 7 bags of wooden clothes pins for her and we were at it again the next night. 3 – The year my dad wanted to teach us how to ride a skateboard. He had his favorite pipe in his mouth and got on the board. Down the hill he went on the board and down he went too. He landed on his rear end and bit the stem of his pipe off. 4 – The really hot summer we had we decided to have water balloon fights. My dad bought us each a package of balloons. My brothers and I were fighting with water balloon when all of a sudden my dad shows up with giant newspaper bags filled with water and starts bombing us with them. I got away and found his stash of bag. I made a few of them myself. I came up behind him when he wasn’t looking and smashed one on his head and back. He started to chase me and I ran in the house. He ran after me. But when he hit the tile floor because he was all wet he slipped and landed on his back. My mom was screaming I killed my dad. He had the wind knocked out of him. But after this he came back and got me good with 5 giant water balloons. 5 – The summer we went to America to spend it with my grandma. My dad bought my mom a Baja Bug to drive while she was there. My grandma didn’t know how to drive and didn’t have a car. My two younger brothers were playing in the car and pretending like they were driving it. Next thing I know the car was going down the street with my two brothers driving it and jumping up and down. Some how they released the brake and put the stick into natural and the car started to roll down the hill. 6 – The summer my dad took us fishing on the beach. We didn’t catch anything that day and my dad needed to get home. He gave me the fishing pole and told me to hold it for him. When he returned my two brothers and I were trying not to let go of the fishing pole. He arrived just in time to take it from us. It took him a good hour to get the fish on the line up on shore. I had landed a giant bat ray. My dad wanted his fish hook back because he said it was his lucky fish hook. 7 – The summer before I was sent to Hawaii I spent this with my grandma and grandpa. My grandpa built stock cars to race every Friday night. I spent the summer at the garage with my grandpa. After we finished the cars they needed to be tested. At the track my grandpa taught me how to drive the cars. I was able to drive the cars around the track testing them. I was strapped into the seat and given a helmet with a microphone and ear phones on it. I could hear what my grandpa told me to do. I think this was the best time of my life driving these cars around the track doing over 90 MPH. After this I wanted to be a race car driver. Image source - pixabay.com