Tell Your Most Memorable Time Dirving

Do you go in or pick up? I haven't been in a grocery store in about a year, and I probably won't until after I get vaccinated.

My first car was a beater, a green '72 Gremlin hatchback that could not go in reverse unless I got out of the running car and reconnected the linkage. Believe it or not, that POS got stolen. lol.

Probably not what you were looking for, but the most memorable time for me was when...

I was nine or ten and it was four or five in the morning driving through no-mans land in upstate NY with my father during a snowstorm. He was eating a meatloaf sandwich and telling me how he loves them with mustard, just the way my mom makes them. He then stops talking, kinda pulls over, stops the car, and starts convulsing. He never said a word, but he was making weird noises, like a cough that wasn't really a cough and then he starts slamming his body back and forth on the steering wheel and his seat. Somehow I figured out he was choking. All I knew to do was pat his back. He pushes me pretty hard away from him and then basically body slams himself on the steering wheel a few more times until I heard what sounded like a balloon releasing air and he just went limp in his seat for a moment. After what seemed like an eternity, he sits up looks at me, smiles, and says, wow that was a close one. Let's not tell mom.

...And dad being dad used the opportunity to teach me that I needed to learn the Heimlich and then quizzed me on what I would have done if he did die. That's the day I learned he always kept a fully stocked emergency kit in the trunk. What a memory, I haven't thought about that in years.