LOL A vehicle of my own came after years of driving an old Ford pickup (while I saved enough to buy my own car)(30 something model) that you had to keep the transmission shifter plate bolts only hand tight - It had a bad habit of locking up between 1st and 2nd.. This put you square in the middle of an intersection with everything locked up... I got pretty fast at pulling the shifter off and with a big screwdriver, pry the slider back into position, put on the shifter and get out of the intersection (with a slight bit of a red face)
But then traffic wasn’t like it is now... We had 9’ roads (where one side was paved and the other was dirt... Everyone drove on the concrete till you met another car) which were so much better than the washboard dirt roads or even the corduroy (slab wood) roads through soft ground.
Although, I do admit that you have a few years on me.
I stand corrected.
And now, out to the garden. Frost predicted tonight, so the buckets need to go back over the tomatoes, the memorial plants need to be put under the porch and covers on the few experimental cukes, corn and squash I planted. Why do I plant early everyy year? Guess that first breath of spring makes me loco.