Make Something Good Today by Erin Napier & Ben Napier

Author:Erin Napier & Ben Napier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

I wanted to drive it so badly, but I didn’t know how to yet.

We swapped the ugly racing wheels that came on it for these originals by the end of the week.

The fact was, I couldn’t experience the car the way he could. Lucky Bug was just a paper tiger if I couldn’t drive her myself.

* * *

Years earlier, Daddy had tried to teach me on his manual transmission Jeep in my own high school’s parking lot. It just hadn’t taken. Though I understood the concept, my feet and hands couldn’t find the rhythm, and the ordeal ended in frustrated tears. This time, as I turned the key with my left foot on the clutch and my right foot on the brake, I grimaced, waiting for the engine to buck and die, but was pleasantly surprised when I did the first step right. That was the only thing I did right for the hour that followed, which also ended in frustrated tears while Ben took my defeated, red face in his hands and kissed me square on the mouth, laughing at how worked up I was getting. “Try again, baby!”

A dozen infuriating tries later, I shifted from first gear to second and made a circle around the parking lot without event. My spirits were lifting as I kept going. I slowed down and parked, praying I could do it again with the same result. I put my foot on the clutch and shifted to reverse, and Ben asked me if I could drive over to the entrance on the hill. I slowly rambled over to that slight slope of asphalt that, for my crippling fear in the moment, might as well have been the incline of Lombard Street in San Francisco. He talked me through how it would work, and I clenched my jaw as my heart raced, ready to let go of the clutch and hit the gas at the critical moment to keep it from stalling.

I saw it in my mind’s eye—puttering right through the traffic light on the hill by 16th Avenue. I wasn’t afraid at all! I was an independent woman! I could drive anything!

And it stalled.

And I hollered and cried.

And I tried again.

Again.

Again.

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