Remember when Health class teachers and school guidance counselors gave the junior high drug speech? They always talked about how drugs would cause a person to have "flashbacks" at some later [guaranteed to be inconvenient] time. "Flashbacks" would certainly make wallpaper appear to be crawling with insects....fuzzy caterpillars in the case of flocked wallpaper. "Flashbacks" would make a person do really dumb things including, but not limited to: Jumping out of windows. Removing clothes during community awards banquets. Buying hideous brocade curtains with swags and poofy valances. Pasting crinkle-look mirror tiles on the wall. Doing the Macarena. Wearing white pants. Hosting NU/OU football parties for the karate school. Volunteering to organize the PTA fundraiser. Running with old knees. Being a parent to teenagers.
So here I am, nearly forty-nine years old. Steven wants to buy a canary yellow 1971 Datsun 240Z that needs a new carbuerator and would have to be towed home. It has only "80,000 original miles". Is that like original sin? All this for only $2000.
Sure, my high school/college friend had a '72 silver Datsun 260Z. Sure, we went on a spring break road trip all the way to Purdue and Michigan State in 1975. But, really, now? In this flashback is the really dumb thing to let him buy the car? Or to prevent him from buying the car?
Is it time to rent "Easy Rider" again at Blockbuster? Help me Rhonda. Help, help me Rhonda. Please register your opinion on the car purchase!
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